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...together reassures, but that reassurance was needed in the first place. There was an anxiety in adolescent California, a nervous need for place and careful planning, a twitching spring from the England of the 1830s and 40s which had replaced old wealth and property with active capital as the shield against uncertainty...
Behind a bulletproof plastic shield, like travelers in a time machine, a jubilant Ronald Reagan and his guest, French President François Mitterrand, watched the Bicentennial celebration of a transatlantic partnership that brought independence to the 13 colonies. "The surrender at Yorktown," Reagan told the crowd of 60,000 (one of whom presented him with a reproduction of a Revolutionary sword), "was a victory for the right of self-determination. It was and is the affirmation that freedom will eventually triumph over tyranny." His Socialist French counterpart, however, had a more pointedly contemporary interpretation of the celebration. Said Mitterrand...
...slowly assimilated back into socially productive roles, drug rehabilitation establishes itself as a valuable service, refuting the common attitude that it is "just a waste of the taxpayers' money." Unlike Third Nail, which is open to anyone with a need, many centers get accredited for Blue Cross and Blue Shield payments, enabling them to charge high weekly fees. Through its Outreach program, the project provides free out-patient drug counseling worth $150,000 in working hours...
...truth bore in with each relentless round of fire, the sounds of frightened screams and crashing chairs exploded, and the crowd stampeded for the exits at the rear. Sadat was struck by bullets or fragments. Others fell around him. "I pulled the President down, and someone else tried to shield him with a couple of chairs," Abu Ghazala said later. "I felt the bullets flying all around me. I could feel the heat of them. Twice I thought it was all over: when I saw the grenade flying toward me, and when I saw a gun barrel right...
...single security guard or soldier had been posted between the route of march and the reviewing stand, undoubtedly because no one expected trouble from soldiers on parade who, supposedly, carried no live ammunition. Thus a wide passage was left open that led straight to Sadat. The only shield afforded the President came when several plainclothesmen threw chairs over Sadat in a hopeless bid to save his life. Once the assassins had turned to flee toward the moving truck, the security guards gave chase, firing pistols and automatic rifles. Abu Ghazala, who had received shrapnel cuts in his face and right...