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Then the delegates filed out to punch their voting cards. The results: Reagan, 34.4%; Connally, 26.6%; Bush, 21.1%; Crane, 13.8%; Baker and Dole less than 1%. Bush's finish was the surprise of the weekend. Reagan left before the results were announced. As the delegates departed, the loudspeaker system was playing his canned thank-you speech, which echoed eerily through the emptying hall...
News of the incident set off a wave of anger and hysteria throughout the Muslim world. There were outrageous rumors, later spread by no less a figure than Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, that the U.S. and Israel were behind the attack. Enraged mobs from Turkey to Bangladesh attacked American diplomatic missions and staged anti-American demonstrations. Most serious was the rioting in Pakistan, where two American servicemen were killed in the burning of the U.S. embassy in Islamabad. The attack on the Sacred Mosque probably had no direct connection with the recent events in Iran...
However unsatisfactory the television newsmen might have found their interviews, they had a lot less to complain about than their print colleagues. Khomeini is still fuming about his unflattering portrayal in an interview with Italian Journalist Oriana Fallaci published two months ago, and since then he has routinely refused to see representatives of Western journals. Moreover, the embassy takeover has been largely a visual story, dominated by chanting marchers, flag burnings and the like, and opportunities to dig and analyze have been limited. The print journalists have spent much of their time sifting the pronouncements of competing spokesmen. Said...
Nothing could have been less congenial to the spirit of modernism than Sargent's work, with its showcase view of human character. By the '30s, few writers were ready to endorse the social attitudes that his paintings reflect-the belief in a natural ruling class, a government above politics, that was bitterly expressed in Hilaire Belloc's epigram on an English general election...
Justin Henry is no less effective...