Word: processional
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Wait a minute. Isn't this 1985, a good three years before the next Republican presidential convention? Yes, but some politicians believe that it is never too early to slap a back in pursuit of a dream. So there was George Bush, just back from an eleven-day official trip...
In Pretoria, meanwhile, a high-court judge issued the conclusions of a government-ordered inquiry into the country's bloodiest confrontation in 25 years. Last March South African police opened fire on a highway procession of 4,000 blacks, killing 20. In a report to South Africa's Parliament, Justice...
Contrary to police claims, said the judge, the blacks had not assaulted the police with stones and gasoline bombs, nor were they "a mob armed to attack" Uitenhage. Instead, they were mourners on their way to the funerals of several blacks killed in earlier clashes with authorities. Kannemeyer condemned police...
Liszt tapped another fervid source of the legend in two episodes of Faust by the mad Hungarian poet Nikolaus Lenau, who wrote his own treatment of the demoniac tale. Nocturnal Procession, a stately, spooky march of Gregorian- chanting penitents, is one of the composer's most original and beautiful creations...
At the same time, Treasury Secretary James Baker has made significant concessions to a procession of lobbyists who have trooped through his department over the past four months. The oil and gas industry, for years the sheltered favorite of congressional committees, successfully persuaded Baker to restore up to two-thirds...