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Germany's conflicts were on display at a demonstration held the Sunday before the Kristallnacht anniversary, when President Richard von Weizsacker tried to deliver an eloquent appeal against hatred from behind a phalanx of police shields, while leftist anarchists chanted "Hypocrites, hypocrites," and pelted him with eggs. That denouement nearly obscured the meaning of a day when 300,000 people had peacefully marched through Berlin to show opposition to the wave of racism and right-wing violence that has brought back ugly memories of an earlier Germany. Ever since last August, when a mob in Rostock besieged and burned...
...expectations accordingly and vented almost every human frustration and anger at him. We have girded him with this hideous apparatus for his safety and convenience; all too often it deafens and crushes its audiences and imprisons the President. An old hand from the days of Richard Nixon watched a phalanx of agents muscle aside delegates on the convention floor last week to clear the way for Barbara Bush. "The Secret Service has taken over the White House advance operation," he muttered through clenched teeth, "and the Bush people have let them...
...product-liability reform. The room was filled with trial lawyers -- and with fear of them. The problem isn't just that trial lawyers donate campaign money, but they can give a maximum of $5,000 in the primary and $5,000 in the general, and they're a phalanx that can have an effect on every candidate who's out there. And it isn't just money. It's also all the emoluments and blandishments...
What is actually onstage is a glorious eruption of color and comedy and confidence. Like the phalanx of limousines outside, it celebrates New York as the city longs to see itself -- stylish, street-smart, sophisticated, ; successful and, in comparison with Los Angeles, blessedly serene. For celebrities, Guys and Dolls has become a must-see. Last week Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were there; the week before, it was Garry Trudeau and Jane Pauley. NBC correspondent and best-selling author Betty Rollin had to settle for standing room while reporting a story. Yet what gives the show an advance sale...
FIDDLING AS A CITY BURNS: Even when the l.a.p.d. slowly returned to the streets on the second day of rioting, it often behaved as if afflicted by a kind of paralysis. In a typical incident in the mid-Wilshire district, a phalanx of 50 police officers guarded a Vons supermarket in the face of taunts from looters. Frustrated, the crowd moved on to an unprotected Thrifty drugstore a block away, which they proceeded to strip. The police waited patiently at Vons until the looters began leaving Thrifty and then -- and only then -- did they move in with sirens blaring...