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...sang the third stanza of Away in a Manger. Her voice cracked and quavered. "Be near me, Lord Jesus," she sang, as she asked her nieces and nephews to join in at home. "I ask thee to stay." Wearing a yellow ribbon in her dark hair, she said a shade more firmly: "I'm feeling good and I've lost weight, for which I'm grateful." Her hostage roommate at an undisclosed location, Elizabeth Ann Swift, appeared more controlled. "Merry Christmas to the whole family," she said. "Kate's a marvelous roommate. Tell everybody...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hostages: She Wore A Yellow Ribbon | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

...skin is tan it means you have to work outdoors, farming or building. Even on the hottest days, workers stay covered from head to toe. Some car washers in Taipei wear detachable sleeves to keep their arms out of the sun; they remove them when they rest in the shade. So Alex and I are not surprised that many of the "bathers" are fully clothed...

Author: By Stephen R. Latham, | Title: More Than One Great Wall | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...safety of mountain camps or bolted across the contested Shatt al Arab waterway to seek refuge in Basra. On a tour of Khorramshahr last week, TIME Correspondent William Drozdiak found very few signs of life; emaciated dogs foraged for scraps in the rubble, swarthy Iraqi soldiers lounged in the shade as they listened to the echo of sporadic shelling in what was left of Abadan (pop. 300,000), seven miles away. Drozdiak's report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Ghost Town on the Gulf | 11/24/1980 | See Source »

...Look around...leaves are brown..and the sky is a hazy shade of winter." --Simon and Garfunkel...

Author: By Sara J. Nicholas, | Title: Cruelest Month-November | 11/21/1980 | See Source »

George Bush seemed nervous. It was a rare occasion on which he shared a platform with the head of his ticket, Ronald Reagan. Bush's voice was reedier than usual, his introductory praise of Reagan awkwardly effusive, his applause during Reagan's speech a shade overeager. Then a man sitting in a tree shouted something that made the crowd in Birmingham, Mich., laugh. A puzzled Reagan announced into an open microphone: "I didn't hear." Like a jack-in-the-box, Bush popped up to cup his hand around Reagan's ear and whisper what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Determined Second Fiddle | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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