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Under the auspices of the Interior Department, government workers erect a large nativity scene on the Mall near the Washington Monument. Burford is revealed to have taken several key church leaders to lunch prior to the decision to mount the display...
...November the stark black granite slashes that form the Viet Nam Memorial near the edge of the Mall in Washington got a more traditional companion piece: a statue of three American soldiers holding their weapons in various attitudes of exhaustion. The memorial is now the most visited monument in the capital. These ceremonies at last served to convey legitimacy on those who fought the war, if not upon the war itself, and thereby accomplished a healing that helped enable Americans to feel good about themselves again...
When Lech Walesa stepped from the portal of St. Brigid's Church in Gdansk last week, carrying a bouquet of red and white carnations, the former Solidarity leader hoped to walk peacefully to the monument of three crosses half a mile away. It was the 14th anniversary of the food riots of 1970, in which dozens of Polish workers were killed by troops and police, and Walesa and some 3,000 followers planned to lay flowers and wreaths at the memorial erected in honor of the martyrs. Linking arms with Bogdan Lis, a former Gdansk Solidarity leader, Walesa strode...
...leadership and tactics and lacks the power to force the government into a dialogue. Walesa may have been trying to give the opposition a fresh sense of purpose last week. Before the demonstration he circulated copies of a speech that he planned but was unable to deliver at the monument. "Solidarity is alive!" he wrote. "What we need now is new open action for trade-union pluralism on a national scale. I call upon all union activists to take action...
Washington's official celebration, echoed in festivals of light and countless other wassailings across the nation, was called the Christmas Pageant of Peace. Held on the Ellipse, a 52-acre circular park between the White House and the Washington Monument, it included not only the elaborately decorated national Christmas tree but also 56 smaller ones representing the states, U.S. territories and the District of Columbia. In addition, the National Zoo installed nine live reindeer near by, and each day a traditional yule log is set ablaze. That feature proved less than popular during last Thursday's balmy weather...