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...free! I'm free!" exulted President Carter as he ran around the South Lawn of the White House in his T shirt. Or so said one top presidential aide, joking about the fact that his boss abandoned the White House Rose Garden last week and started campaigning again after 186 days of self-imposed isolation. Still Carter was only half free as he made his first political foray since the capture of the Tehran hostages. Though he had just swept to solid victories over Senator Edward M. Kennedy in the primary elections in Indiana, North Carolina and Tennessee (losing...
Some two dozen Sioux Indians sat in a semicircle on a pine-shaded lawn in Lincoln, Neb. One by one the Sioux rose to denounce Hanta Yo, Ruth Beebe Hill's bestselling book that reviewers have touted as the Indian version of Roots. Complained Ben Black Bear Sr., a steely-haired medicine man who addressed the crowd in his native Lakota: "I wouldn't look upon the Indian people as behaving like pte [buffalo...
While the President and his national security advisers went over every grim detail of the situation in the Cabinet Room, a startlingly different scene was occurring just outside on the South Lawn. Under the springtime splendor of the cherry blossoms, thousands of youngsters were enjoying the traditional Easter Monday egg rolling. The thick, lightly tinted bulletproof windows of the Cabinet Room could not block out the laughter and the sound of music...
Following a city report released yesterday which shows that Harvard acquired close to two million square feet of land during the last decade, the council also voted to post a large sign on the front lawn of City Hall detailing the University's purchases...
...year has passed since President Anwar Sadat and Premier Menachem Begin signed the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty on the north lawn of the White House. This week Sadat returns to Washington for another round of talks with President Carter, to be followed a week later by one with Begin. The purpose of these separate encounters: to keep the faltering peace process alive by making some headway on the complicated and emotional question of self-determinationor "autonomy," as the Camp David accords put it, with deliberate ambiguityfor the West Bank and Gaza...