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...Viet Nam War, conveys the bare emotions of a soldier fallen out of season with himself, as well as the harshness of life in America's northern wilderness. There, even nature offers litle solace; the aurora borealis, a ghostly disturbance flickering in the sky, appears as a "mock sun" that offers light but no heat...
...Chancellor Franz Vranitzky reacted with calculated displeasure. Austria pointedly recalled its Ambassador from Washington for consultations and rejected the U.S. charges as "unproven." Nor did officials in Vienna accept the U.S. view that the law excluding Waldheim permits waivers for those with diplomatic status. Said Foreign Minister Alois Mock: "You cannot differentiate between a private person and the President." But Vranitzky stopped short of canceling a scheduled visit to Washington later this month, explaining that he now needs to use his meeting with Reagan to press for the evidence on which the U.S. acted. Austrian political observers took that decision...
...illusion of apartheid, as decreed by the major segregation laws of the 1950s, was the fantasy that South Africa's blacks could be legally assigned to ten autonomous tribal homelands and then admitted to white South Africa only as migrant workers, not citizens. The realities of urbanization mock that fantasy, and anyone wandering around Cape Town or Johannesburg today can see blacks sitting next to whites in restaurants or lining up in the same banking queue to be served by a black teller. Nobody is surprised to observe a black traffic policeman ticketing a white who ran a stop sign...
Police said about 5,000 protesters marched through West Berlin's downtown area, wearing gas masks and carrying mock Geiger counters in a peaceful demonstration...
...Quantico, Va., a number of Marines are enduring the rigors of a very different course that seems closer to Miss Manners than the halls of Montezuma: training to be diplomatic guards at a mock-up of an embassy called Marshall Hall. Social etiquette is the topic as a gunnery sergeant combines a lecture with a slide show. A photograph of a diplomatic reception is projected. "What kind of dress do we say they're wearing there?" asks the sergeant. "That's right. That's black tie." Laughter greets the next slide, showing a Marine presenting flowers to a young woman...