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...unit created to guarantee the security of the nation's airports. Two weeks earlier, AVSECOM had been transferred from the control of the airport authority to the personal command of an air force brigadier general. Inside the terminal, the passenger lobby was closed. Outside, on the tarmac, a phalanx of soldiers armed with M-16 rifles waited as China Airlines Flight 811 taxied toward Gate 8. By then, Aquino's ebullience had vanished. Dressed in a white safari suit and a bulletproof vest that he had put on just before landing, Aquino waited calmly as three soldiers...
When the marchers arrived at Central Committee headquarters, they found their route blocked by several hundred riot policemen. For a few tense moments they waited in front of the phalanx armed with shields and clubs. But security officials had apparently been told to avoid a confrontation at all cost; with uncharacteristic courtesy, they used their bullhorns to announce: "We are kindly asking you to please disperse." The spontaneous protest ended peacefully, but not before Solidarity supporters had taunted the riot squad with the cry: "See you tomorrow...
...phalanx of photographers, TV cameramen and reporters eagerly awaiting her arrival outside the British Museum last week must have reminded Melina Mercouri, 57, of her heady days as one of Europe's leading actresses. But in her current role as Greece's Minister of Culture, Mercouri was seeking publicity not for herself but for a favorite cause: the Elgin Marbles, which were the Acropolis Marbles before the Seventh Earl of Elgin removed them in 1801 with the agreement of the occupying Turkish Ottoman Empire. Athens says it wants them back; the British say that the Greeks have, terribly...
When Republican Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, introduces a bill entitled S.1 this week, he will be the first of a phalanx of blockers trying to mow down obstacles to congressional approval of a $168 billion Social Security compromise package. With the bipartisan blessings of President Reagan and House Speaker Tip O'Neill, the National Commission on Social Security Reform hammered together the agreement hours short of its Jan. 15 deadline. The commission's success, after months of deadlock, may have saved the entire Social Security issue from becoming fatally ensnared...
...remains an uneven collection to of trite and witty lyrics. The better include a worried Person's lament. "Then again we might be foolish/Not to quit while we're ahead/ For distance leads enchantment and that is why/All exiles are distinguished/ More important they're not dead." And a phalanx of aristocrats admit. "No we wouldn't mind/ Seeing her in Harrod's/But behind the jewelry counter/ Not in front...