Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even the remote possibility of harm to the President and top Administration figures has prompted new security measures. The FBI is working with the CIA, customs officers and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police to increase surveillance along the U.S.-Canadian border for possible infiltrators. Says Ray Hagerty, a regional Customs Service director: "We have stepped up our watch." But an FBI official in Detroit, where more than a million people a month cross from Canada, cautions that reports of heightened vigilance along the border should not be blown out of proportion. Says he: "There is no massing of agents along...
Meanwhile, the suffering goes on. The day before Thanksgiving, Albert Fouchia of Southfield lost his job with a rivet supplier for the second time in 18 months. At the unemployment office in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, a dozen long lines of people wait for benefit checks in shamed, disconsolate quiet. Most act too embarrassed to talk even to fellow job seekers. Few seem hopeful of finding work. Says Gloria Condele, 44, a laid off cashier: "Even people who are still working are worried." Roy Gavel, previously laid off as a Chevrolet assembly worker in 1975, got certified...
...hours of bickering as yet another milestone in the 30-year Arab tradition of political disarray. The twelfth summit meeting of the 21-member Arab League, held briefly and acrimoniously last week behind the venerable battlements of the Moroccan city of Fez, undermined the prestige of the royal House of Saud, which had striven mightily to bring the conclave to a successful outcome. Yet even as the angry Saudi leaders stalked to their waiting aircraft, it was by no means clear that their efforts to find an alternative to the sputtering Camp David peace process had been dealt a final...
...Britain, for example, the royal wedding inspired an imitation cube that shows the Union Jack on four sides and the likenesses of Prince Charles and Diana, Princess of Wales, on the other two. Because of its pictures, the royal cube is even tougher to solve than its Hungarian predecessor. While Rubik's Cube has a mere 43.2 quintillion (432 followed by 17 zeros) possible arrangements, the new British version has 88.6 sextillion (886 followed by 20 zeros) permutations...
Audiences love you or hate you in this country--their responses lack complexity. There is an element of fraud in the hosannas that greet the Royal Shakespeare Company's Nicholas Nickleby every night from the moment the lights dim. The show is sensational, to be sure, but the overpowering beauty of its canvas becomes apparent only around Hour Five, long, long after delirious theatregoers have been scurrying about proclaiming it's the greatest day they've ever spent in the theatre. Nothing's inherently objectionable about an immense outpouring of love, but the flip side of this is the palpable...