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...near Windhoek, Namibia's capital, to give him a joyous homecoming. As he descended from the back of a pickup truck flying blue-red-and-green flags, any notion that he had mellowed in Cape Town's Robben Island prison was soon dispelled. Toivo raised a clenched fist in a black-power salute and shouted the official SWAPO slogan, "One Namibia, one nation...
...landing craft; it was followed by a procession of Jeeps and other vehicles until finally the landing craft pulled away to make room for another. At one point an armored personnel carrier manned by Shi'ite Muslim militiamen rattled past a U.S. observation tower. The driver raised his fist, seemingly in defiance; the two Marines on the tower just stared back. The 18-month assignment of the Marines in Lebanon, a mission that few could either define or explain...
With "And the Ship Sails On," Fellini holds up a picture only to have a terrible fist punch right through it. But because so little is known about what and who has been destroyed, the sense of loss felt cannot be very great...
...throwaway line." More seriously, he professed to find the Treasury Secretary's attack "quite amazing. I can't understand it." In fact, the two have long been at odds, though their differences have usually been expressed by a backstage elbow in the ribs rather than a public fist in the eye. Feldstein takes a far gloomier view of huge federal deficits than Regan does, and last week he annoyed the White House by saying as much in discussing forthcoming budget talks with Democrats. Said Feldstein, putting his cards on the table before the game even began...
Thus the Games will open on schedule in a mood of well-justified gaiety and self-congratulation among the Yugoslavs. Branko Mikulic, the forceful fist banger who is president of Yugoslavia's Olympic Organizing Committee, and a former president of Bosnia-Herzegovina, of which Sarajevo is the capital, guaranteed the complete success of the Games and then went off to give his staff a dressing down described as "thunderous" on some unspecified subject. "I believe we are completely ready to host the Games," insists one official. Still it was true that there were a few minor shortcomings. Sarajevo...