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...warm hospitality," and the delegates seconded that emotion with cheers and applause. During breakfast the next morning, Reagan again praised Detroit Mayor Coleman Young for a job well done. Agreed G.O.P. Chairman Bill Brock: "I'm getting overwhelming compliments about Detroit. This city has busted its rear...
...west Bank, Karim Khalaf, mayor of the resort town of Ramallah, left his rambling stone house to drive 1½ miles to his city hall office. As Khalaf, 43, turned the ignition switch of his green 1980 Cadillac, a bomb exploded beneath his feet. A gardener working in the rear courtyard ran to the car and pulled the screaming mayor from...
...friends and relatives visiting the refugees at the base's Red Cross building had just been asked to leave for the night. Suddenly, the anger and frustration that had long been building within the refugee center erupted. The refugees knocked over barriers and streamed out of an open rear gate that had been left unguarded by the military police...
...colored" (mixed race) Cape Town suburb of Elsie's River. Bands of youths pelted passing cars with rocks. Then someone threw an unlit gasoline bomb at a truck driven by two white plain-clothes policemen. Two other officers in camouflage riot gear suddenly sprang from the rear. Without warning they fired directly into the crowd, wounding six and killing two 15-year-old colored students...
...stage two women plead for his assistance in tedious, unexpectedly serious tones. It seems like a screwed-up bit of pacing. But then a macabre, unforgettable vision appears: a group of eerie, frazzled black scarecrows in a Brownian movement behind the transparent plastic sheet that forms the stage's rear boundary, staring at Khlestakov like a second, ghostly audience. In his impenetrable complacency, he can ignore them with a wave of his hand. But if the audience on the other side is to respect itself any more than it respects him, it's forced to contemplate its own visate...