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...which visibly disturbs them since it violates their strongly Chilean sense of hospitality--and he describes the days in the Stadium. "They took one of the teachers from my school, a 50-year-old Trotskyist, and put him against the wall and asked him if he knew how to pray. He began to sing the Internationale. The machine-gunned him. I cried all night...
...PRAY FOR RHODESIA implores a bumper sticker seen on many cars in Salisbury these days. Signs in public places warn against loose talk that might jeopardize security. STICKS AND STONES MAY BREAK YOUR BONES, BUT WORDS CAN KILL YOU reads one. A BOAST NOW, A BOMB LATER goes another. Over lunch at the staid Salisbury Club, business and government leaders dismiss those who worry about the future as "dismal Jimmys." But many are quietly preparing what they refer to as "fallback positions, " slowly salting away nest eggs abroad despite Rhodesia's stiff system of restrictions on overseas capital transfers...
...established players, spring training is a paid vacation, but for those who are trying to secure one of the last places on the roster, it's a time to do what you're told, and even then you have to pray...
...storm of demonstrations, strikes, riots and other political protests that spread through West Bank cities and towns last week. The initial focus of the Arab discontent was a religious issue: a decision handed down two months ago by a Jerusalem magistrate, Ruth Or, that Jews had a right to pray on the Temple Mount, the site of the ancient Temple of Solomon and hence Judaism's holiest site. It is also the site of Al Aqsa mosque, revered by Moslems as the third most sacred spot in Islam, after Mecca and Medina. Previously, Israel's Chief Rabbinate...
...foreign affairs would survive the upheaval. Close to the end, he broke down and asked Kissinger to join him on his knees in the little office just off the Oval. "You are not a very orthodox Jew and I am not an orthodox Quaker, but we need to pray," said the despairing President. Kissinger prayed, although he often sneered at Nixon behind his back and sometimes concealed his loathing only with difficulty when they were together. Privately, Kissinger referred to Nixon as "our meatball President...