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Thanks to the perseverance of a Harvard librarian, the flag at Cambridge's historic Flaggstaff Park will no longer hang in tatters...
...response to a series of letters and telephone calls from D. Alan Diefenbach, senior reference librarian at the Law School's Langdell library, the Cambridge City Council voted last week to develop a policy to maintain the flag, which is located on the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Garden Street...
Diefenbach said he was shocked last July when he saw the flag, which stands on the site where George Washington first took command of the Continental Army, in shreds just before Independence...
...letter, Diefenbach said that the flag has been especially meaningful to him because of his time in the foreign service. During the 1960's, he was stationed in Indonesia, where massive anti-American protests were occuring. Two Indonesian employees risked their lives to keep the flag flying, Diefenbach said...
...look at one of the station's propaganda films shows why Yitzhak Rabin would be happy to see Lighthouse knocked out of commission. While martial music blares in the background, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, Hizballah's leader, is seen embracing departing fighters. Documentary footage shows guerrillas planting their flag, Iwo Jima-style, as they storm an Israeli position. Israeli troops load casualties onto stretchers and into helicopters. "Thousands upon thousands are waiting for their martyrdom," says Nasrallah of his forces. Cross hairs are superimposed over footage of Israeli soldiers on patrol. Voices chant, "Resistance! Resistance! Resistance...