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...University College teachers who were kidnaped in January. As the week began, Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine delivered to a Western news agency in Beirut a six-minute videotape of Steen reading a statement from the captives. Then, hours before the execution deadline, the terrorists released a handwritten text of another letter that ended with moving messages. Steen, a journalism instructor, wrote to his wife, "I don't want to see you cry anymore. Tell them to release the 400. I love you." Wrote Accounting Lecturer Polhill: "Foura, I love you. Sorry I've messed up so much...
...personal notes that Reagan made for his memoirs was a dubious enterprise. The commission asked, the President unwisely acceded, though the precedent is probably more important than the material, rumored to be colorful but unrevealing. Reagan personally selected what he wanted the commission to see from his handwritten files and had it typed up. A ! White House courier brought the pages and sat primly by while the investigators read the notes, then returned them to the courier. Gentlemen...
Certainly, some additional support for low-cost housing is necessary. In East Brooklyn a handwritten sign on the door of Nehemiah's offices sums up the dilemma faced by private housing groups across the country. PLEASE DO NOT KNOCK! reads the placard. WE ARE SOLD OUT. Those on the list for Nehemiah housing face a wait of more than two years...
...mean right here and now by hand?" I asked. "But you require that it be typewritten and in two copies." "It is all right, it can be handwritten and in one copy." When that was done, she told me to get pictures taken and bring them back the next day. I realized that they wanted me to leave soon, without seeing Andrei...
...unfreedom contrive their own covert liberty. The Soviet writer Andrei Sinyavski, sent to the labor camps for six years (1966 to 1971) for "manufacturing" anti-Soviet works, wrote, "I measure life by the number of times my head is shaven." He thought about Mozart and Haydn. He kept a handwritten copy of the Book of Revelation in his boot, and that became his freedom...