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...world nears, according to the biblical prophet Zechariah, visitors from many nations will gather each year in Jerusalem "to worship the King, the Lord Almighty, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles." The words took life last week as 3,000 people from 35 countries celebrated Tabernacles, or Sukkoth, with parades, cookouts and musical services in one of the Holy City's most spectacular religious events of the year. Significantly, the celebrants were Christians...
...missionary-minded Evangelicals who organized the International Christian Celebration During the Feast of Tabernacles, planned as an annual opportunity "to rejoice before the Lord and to stand and support the Jewish people and comfort Zion." So said the Rev. Johann Lukoff, 42, a Dutch Reformed South African who directs the festival and the related International Christian Embassy...
...countrymen, but also because the state of emergency left people uneasy about venturing into the streets. There were no roadblocks. No extraordinary military presence was visible except around a few key installations and buildings. Stores stayed open late as Cairenes shopped for 'Id al-Adha, the Muslim feast of sacrifice. Only on the morning of the funeral was there a street demonstration. Said a student: "Something is destroyed inside of me. He is gone, I'm here. That...
...precise in their meaning as equations in physics. Thus when a State Department spokesman described last week's meeting between Secretary of State Alexander Haig and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko as "frank and businesslike," his listeners knew that the session may not have been a love feast, but that some progress had been made. At the first high-level dialogue between the two superpowers in twelve months, and the first for the Reagan Administration, Haig and Gromyko soberly spelled out each nation's grievances with a minimum of posturing and propagandizing. "They were not red-faced," said...
...another, more public afternoon in Mocksville, N.C., at a Masonic picnic, Helms is not asked to account for his future. His speech is scheduled between Ferris wheel rides and an all-you-can-eat feast of baked ham and lemon pie. Supporters mob him all day. He is happy...