Word: hubertism
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...burning U.S. embassy in Pakistan in November, managed to reach Kabul aboard a regular flight. Yet her stay was brief: at the airport, which she found to be "a veritable garrison," she and other arriving journalists were held for seven hours before being deported on another flight. But Hubert Van Es, a Dutch photographer on assignment for TIME, managed to prolong his stay. Though he was placed under guard, he was still able to slip away and sneak a few fast photographs after simply refusing to leave the country on a departing plane. His pictures and impressions of the occupied...
...Western journalists who had even a fleeting glance of the Afghan capital last week was Dutch Photographer Hubert Van Es, on assignment for TIME. On his way into town from the airport, Van Es saw Soviet tanks and troop carriers everywhere. After two nights of house arrest at the Kabul Inter-Continental Hotel, he managed to slip away for a look at downtown Kabul on New Year's Day. He found surprisingly few Soviet soldiers on the streets except in front of Radio Afghanistan, the Interior Ministry and the post office. Back at the hotel, an employee told...
...Commencement. Clutching a Harvard honorary degree in his withered claw, the cancerridden ex-dictator cites the moral decline of the West as the reason for his downfall, calling for the re-instatement of ROTC at Harvard. President Bok dinies rumors that the Shah was chosen only after both Hubert Humphrey and John Wayne turned down invitations to speak...
Things look rosy at the wedding until Cardinal Pandulph, the Papal Legate, orders France not to ally herself with England as long as John refuses to support the Church's choice for Archbishop of Canterbury. In the ensuing battle, John captures Arthur and orders Hubert, a faithful servant, to kill the boy. Hubert cannot bids him escape, claiming Arthur died in his sleep...
...King's advisers, suspecting foul play, defect to France before Hubert confesses to John that Arthur lives. When Arthur dies trying to escape, the nobles find his body outside the city gate and grow more incensed. The French invade England under the Dauphin's command, only to be beaten back. The nobles find it expedient to return to John's fold when they learn the Dauphin plans to kill them. By now the King is a broken man who dies of poison, the ever-loyal Phillip the Bastard by his side...