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...news of the shooting flashed around the world, many nations expressed sympathy for the President but predictably criticized the American tendency toward mayhem. "I pray your injuries are not serious," cabled Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt relayed his "deep horror," and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat his "extreme shock and sorrow." Japan's largest daily, Yomiuri Shimbun, said the attack "proves that violence is deep-rooted in U.S. soil...
...support, enough to guarantee a sizable majority in the 635-seat House of Commons. Thatcher does not want an early election, since both she and Labor Party Leader Michael Foot are showing the lowest personal standings for any Prime Minister and party leader since the war. "Every day I pray that Margaret Thatcher and Michael Foot will be the leaders at the next election," says former Labor Foreign Secretary turned S.D.P. Leader David Owen, 42. "What could be better than to run against those...
...Central America. Moreover, Soviet adventurism may well become more dangerous when the aging leaders of the Kremlin are succeeded by a new generation that has known only expanding power. At a private dinner celebrating his confirmation by the Senate as Secretary of State, Haig told friends, "Every night I pray that [Soviet President Leonid] Brezhnev stays healthy and alive for a good while to come-at least until we have caught up with the Soviet Union. Because if he goes suddenly, I believe that the young ones waiting in the wings will take over. They have never known...
...most of the efforts to help are genuine. A Brooklyn, N.Y., black newspaper, Big Red, is raising funds for the Atlanta police department. St. Paul African Methodist Episcopal Church in Cambridge, Mass., is urging members to pray and wear green ribbons, symbolizing life. The Rev. Willie Taplin Barrow, a Chicago mother and minister, helped organize a group of 200 women to travel to Atlanta to meet with parents "to find out how we can help." Says Barrow: "If everybody just prays, God can do anything...
...accused, their intriguing affair, and the misogynist overtones that many women found in Tarnower's treatment of Harris, all combined to make the trial a press spectacular, a debate over man's inhumanity to woman. Said one courtroom regular, a sharp-eyed lady of about 60: "I pray for Jean Harris every night. I know all about men. I know what they did to me. They went out with my girlfriends." And so there were television crews catching catnaps in the corner, and authors calling their agents from the makeshift phones in the lobby-cum-pressroom. After more...