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...opponent's statistics when his turn came on television, "but unfortunately, not exact." Mitterrand made plain his own unequivocal support for the Atlantic Alliance and a truly united political Europe. "It is sad to note," he observed, "how much Gaullism has come to resemble Vichy, with a monarch and a little court." De Gaulle was like Madame du Barry before the guillotine, he said, pleading "Just another moment, just another moment, Mr. Executioner." The force de frappe? "De Gaulle's diplomatic toy, about as effective for France as the Maginot Line...
Fatigue & Peekaboo. "You have before you a man like you, your brother " Paul told the U.N. For once, it could be believed. Nudged and cheered by surging crowds, kept under all but constant surveillance by television cameras, Paul appeared no less the spiritual monarch but more the appealing human being. Like other men, a Pope can suffer from the cold-a fact made clear when Paul alter a momentary breath of the 44° weather that greeted him in New York abruptly switched from his open-top Lincoln to an enclosed limousine for the ceremonial motorcade through the city Popes...
...Francisco Chronicle ("Voice of the West") and the Hearst-owned San Francisco Examiner ("Monarch of the Dailies") have competed as strenuously and exuberantly as any two newspapers in the U.S. In their fight for dominance of the city's morning field, they have pirated star reporters, editors and columnists from each other. They have copied each other's gimmicks, from circus makeup to colored sports pages to wavy lines around pictures. And they often have told each other off editorially. When the zany, fun-filled Chronicle last year championed the topless bathing suit, the Examiner clucked: "The Voice...
...commanders who invented a sedition whenever they wanted a promotion. When all possible opposition was crushed, Lady Wu abolished the Tang succession, established the Wu dynasty, and in 690 had herself crowned as the first Wu Emperor. To everyone's amazement, she proved in most respects a model monarch. She demolished the apparatus of terror and installed a Cabinet of honest civil servants who ruled the country well. At 80, feeble but still formidable, she was persuaded to relinquish her male harem and was maneuvered into luxurious retirement. Less than a year later she died-without a care...
Courage & Cannon. And so, in 1879, after presenting demands that no monarch would have met and that Cetshwayo did not understand, the British crossed the Tugela under arms. The massacre at Isandhlwana was only the first of many shocks for the British, and in the end, the campaign that they had planned to finish in two months took nine. It pitted courage and cannon against courage and assegais-and the cannon inevitably...