Word: margarete
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...protests were directed at the governing board of the BBC. The previous week, after objections from Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's Home Secretary, Leon Brittan, the board had canceled a television documentary that featured interviews with Irish extremists, including an alleged leader of the Irish Republican Army. Thatcher, the target of an I.R.A. bomb last October, had declared a month ago that terrorists should be denied the "oxygen of publicity...
Even rain could not dampen the good cheer last week as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother celebrated her 85th birthday. Accompanied by her daughters Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, the birthday girl started her various celebrations at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, where the organist ended the service by striking up a rousing Happy Birthday. The next day, the traditional 62-gun birthday salute was fired at Hyde Park and the Tower of London. But the best present came when the Queen Mum got her long-standing wish to fly aboard the Concorde. During her nearly two-hour specially...
Like Robert Capa and Margaret Bourke-White, Carl Mydans helped to transform American photojournalism from a source of inert head shots and ceremonious poses into a supple narrative art. As a staff photographer for LIFE, Mydans was present and accounted for at the darkest moments of a dark century: the Depression, World War II, Korea and Viet Nam. The retrospective of his work at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth offers a chance to review his pictures uncoupled from the periods they defined and the magazine pages they were designed to serve. A museum show is the acid test...
...Adams of the experience: "We really didn't know if anyone would consent to be photographed, but once the word got around, we got amazing cooperation." For one thing, Adams' sessions never took more than ten minutes. "In fact," he says, "the Prime Ministers of Britain, Italy and China [Margaret Thatcher, Bettino Craxi and Zhao Ziyang] all showed up at the same time, and we took three different sets of portraits in 15 minutes...
Meeting in the Bahamas, 46 countries that are members of the British Commonwealth did impose sanctions, though British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher made sure they were much milder than originally proposed. The Commonwealth's declaration threatened stronger action--for example, the prohibition of new investment--by individual countries if Pretoria did not begin moving toward the abolition of apartheid within six months. Prime Minister Brian Mulroney of Canada threatened to sever all his country's diplomatic and economic ties with South Africa if the dismantling of apartheid did not begin soon. Mulroney told the U.N., "This institutionalized contempt for justice...