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Outside the diplomatic entrance to the State Department Building in Washington last week, a small knot of demonstrators gathered to chant slogans and wave placards. But if the protesters' target, South African Foreign Minister Roelof ("Pik") Botha, was bothered by the demonstration, he gave no sign of it. After a private discussion with Secretary of State George Shultz, followed by a working lunch, Botha claimed confidently that the U.S. had a "real chance" of resolving one of southern Africa's thorniest problems: getting independence for Namibia, a vast, arid territory controlled by South Africa. Echoed a senior State...
...vigil beneath the second-story window of his apartment block on the outskirts of Gdansk. Suddenly, late in the evening, an excited murmur spread through the milling crowd. Before the convoy of four cars could pull to a stop, it was mobbed by surging onlookers who struck up the chant, "Leszek, Leszek." At the center of the commotion was a familiar figure with a drooping mustache. Looking noticeably more rotund, Walesa, 39, had come home...
Given this, it is surprising how fresh and purely elemental a Western Barbarosa is Director Schepisi (The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith. The Devil's Playground) is Australian, so instead of being overwhelmed by the burden of a cinematic and cultural past, he strips away the accumulated layers and gets at the core of Western legend. In this respect Barbarosa's strength and vitality recalls the poignant Westerns of another outsider. Sergio Leone, but without their cutting edge of nastiness...
...pilgrimage he formerly dismissed as touristy, he speaks the author's mind as well as his own: "I move past the scaffolding and walk down the steps, hearing one language after another, rich, harsh, mysterious, strong. This is what we bring to the temple, not prayer or chant or slaughtered rams. Our offering is language...
...massacre, said to have occurred last January in Bostan, a town in the southwestern province of Khuzistan, was photographed by Iranian officers sympathetic to the Mujahedin. According to the officers, Islamic Guards assembled a group of Iraqi prisoners in front of pictures of Khomeini and ordered them to chant slogans praising the Ayatullah. Several dozen Iraqis refused. They were led away, and their hands were tied behind their backs. As regular army officers watched in disbelief, an earthmover dug a large ditch. After the prisoners had been placed along the edge, the guards opened fire. The bodies tumbled into...