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...church in Washington's Georgetown. Prominent among the absentees was Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, 54, who spent the day in Hyannisport, Mass., with the President's mother, Rose, 93. Also missing: John Kennedy Jr., 23, who is studying in India. Among those at the site of the eternal flame were Senator Edward Kennedy, 51, Eunice Shriver, 62, and Caroline, 26. Said Senator Kennedy of his brother during the special tribute: "There was a spark in him so special. His thousand days will be remembered for a thousand years and more. We miss you, Jack, and always will...
...existing evidence for this claim is abundant, and certain incidents keep the flame of protest especially high. In December 1981, for instance, Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon spent 10 days in South Africa, and traveled to "operational areas" in Nambia, the place from which South Africa was launching attacks on Angola. (1) The more ordinary reports on Israel and South Africa are equally disturbing, such as the help Israel has provided South Africa in building huge electrified fences as an "anti-guerrilla" measure...
...listened intently to recordings of Winston Churchill's speeches, picking up the grand rhythms of the language), he knew the limitations of everything, including himself. His instruments were sensitive to the bogus. He might even have had some mordant crack to make about that Eternal Flame...
...distinction is very useful. Consider the United States, the Soviet Union and the quarrels, crises, and wars of the Third World. These "hot-beds" (the Russian word connotes ember waiting to flare into flame) have drawn in the superpowers since 1946, when the United States armed the Koumintang in China against its internal communist enemies. Periodically, as with the Korean war, local quarrels threaten to escalate to world wars. Today Soviet and American military planners share the view that once the superpowers become involved war will spread, and they see the explosive politics around the Persian Gulf as the most...
...invaders had made a bonfire, enjoyed it for a time, then doused it. A puddle still trickled from the center of the pyre: a transparent spiral of vapor curled out of its flank. The dead books reeked of ruin, flame, animal hides, a fetid steaminess. In the streets creatures like centaurs scuttled and scrabbled, flinging their rods, sticks, rocks, poles, Metamorphosis and shock...