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...Manchester, N.H., motel room one afternoon last month, Jackson rested under the sheets of a king-size bed. There was something sultan-like about him as he sat propped up, arms folded across his chest, wearing a white undershirt. His voice was the tip-off to his great pleasure as he told of large white audiences that turned out to see him around the country. 'There's a real phenomenon going on out there," Jackson said. Organizations that shunned him in 1984 now urge him to visit. The Montana state legislature gave him a standing ovation. He described...
...Toshiyuki Nakamura, who was president of Japan's third largest paintmaker, Dai Nippon Toryo, was meeting in March with other executives in his office when he suddenly put his hand to his chest and fell from his chair, dead of a heart attack at 62. Nakamura had been trying to engineer a recovery for the company, which had plunged heavily into debt...
Unlike Oliver North, Admiral Poindexter took the spear of responsibility in his own chest. But through the testimony of both was threaded a common theme: their goal was to cast a shroud of deniability around their activities...
...plucked the patriotic heartstrings perhaps more musically than even the President, turning to his favor a question about whether the day of his firing was "one of the worst days in your life." No, he replied, "most of those were days when young Marines died." The medals on his chest, said North, were really earned by the "young Marines that I led." He lectured the legislators on the Communist threat around the world, implying that he knew far better than they how to protect America against...
...turned into a combat zone. Tens of thousands of demonstrators roamed through the capital's streets and squares, unfurling banners and shouting slogans protesting the rule of President Chun Doo Hwan. Once again they were pursued relentlessly by squads of police wearing their familiar Darth Vader helmets and brandishing chest- high shields. Once again the stench of pepper gas, fired in prodigious quantities by the police, wafted into the early summer night, an acrid testament to the scenes of defiance...