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...interview, and Barrett and Brew interviewed the President again on Election Day, when he knew his victory was assured (see page 52). On the road with Mondale were Correspondents Sam Allis and Jack White. Said Allis of the frantic finish: "Mondale's pace since the debates has been brutal. We arrive and leave our hotels in the dark, stops are added to the schedule at the last minute. Sometimes I feel as if I have been on Guadalcanal for a year...
...from this month's elections. Harvard professor Frederick E. Snyder visited the scene and found both "massive support" and "a sense of freedom and security." So much for totalitarianism. Their popularity should come as no surprise, because the Sandinistas and the peasants fought long and hard to overcome the brutal Somozas...
...treaties did succeed, thanks to the perseverance of Toreros and other Panamanians The General's patience was a rare commodity, but then Torrijos was a rare individual. As Graham Greene notes in his portrait, Getting To Know The General, Torrijos was a lone wolf on a continent noted for brutal military leaders, a general who earnestly preferred democracy to dictatorship, and a man who rarely used force because his skills as a politician rarely made it necessary. His domestic achievements were substantial but his international achievements were stupendous: in a decade of rule before his 1981 death in a plane...
...country for 16 of the past 18 years, and concern over whether her son was properly equipped for the job that so quickly became his. In Washington, President Reagan, who was awakened with news of the shooting soon after midnight, expressed his "shock, revulsion and grief over the brutal assassination." Secretary of State George Shultz was designated to lead the U.S. delegation to the funeral. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who spoke with Mrs. Gandhi regularly by telephone, declared, "India has been robbed of a leader of incomparable courage, vision and humanity. For my part, I shall feel greatly...
...human being and the unknown." Like other artists working from within a conception of Japanese modernism-the film director Nagisa Oshima, the designer Issey Miyake-Amagatsu is obsessed with redefinition. Buto, at its point of origin in the social and artistic turmoil of the '60s, was brooding, even brutal, full of images of apocalypse. It was revolutionary, but by the time Amagatsu began his work with Sankai Juku, it was in need of refinement...