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...under similar circumstances. Thus Administration officials were able to claim that Reagan's invitation to Gromyko was nothing more than a traditional gesture, though they neglected to point out that Washington has not extended the courtesy since 1978. Reagan expressed cautious optimism that a session with Gromyko might lift some of the "suspicion and hostility" that have lately poisoned U.S.-Soviet relations and "maybe convince him that the U.S. means no harm." He hardly needed to add that the chance to be seen shaking hands with Gromyko in the White House Oval Office could reap rich political dividends...
...their hands. Despite the presence of KGB plainclothesmen with cameras, two dozen people did so. A parishioner later explained poignantly why more did not respond: "You Americans live in freedom. Our arms are always pressed down to our sides. We are like prisoners. It is hard for us to lift our souls to God." - By Richard N. Ostling. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof /Moscow
...ritual was not a photo opportunity staged for the occasion. It was required, said Maori leaders, to lift the tapu, or religious restrictions, from the exhibit's 174 pieces, which the New Zealanders believe are imbued with the living spirits of their ancestors. After the Metropolitan show closes Jan. 6, Maori leaders will travel abroad once more to conduct tapu-lifting rites when the exhibit opens at the St. Louis Art Museum in February and the M.H, de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco in July...
...Maori gesture of raging self-assertion. The broad, lumpy body may be scrunched down in the warrior's crouch, or, ready to spring, the fighter may hold a paddle-shaped club designed to strike a blow at an enemy's temple and then to lift off the top of his skull...
Version 2: The scene is an airstrip in Jamastrán, Honduras, recently improved by the U.S. Two armed Americans lift off in a helicopter carrying 36 rockets and a machine gun. It joins three Cessna aircraft in a contra raid on a military school and an electric plant near Santa Clara, ten miles inside Nicaragua. The planes fire 24 rockets, killing a 40-year-old male civilian and three girls. The chopper is shot down, and its three occupants are killed. The Americans were on a combat mission with the knowledge and implicit approval...