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...Government had not yet decided what to do with the remains. Residents of Dover feared that unidentified or unclaimed bodies might be buried near their small town (pop. 28,500) in massive numbers and become a macabre shrine of sorts. Predicted Dover Mayor Charles A. Legates: "You could expect martyrdom, hordes of people making an annual pilgrimage on the anniversary of Jonestown. We just couldn't handle that...
...their part, have bitter memories of the walls and barbed wire that divided Jerusalem until 1967, and of the despoliation of the Old City's Jewish Quarter by the Arabs. Never again, they say, can the city be divided and Jews be forbidden to pray before their holiest shrine, the Wailing Wall. To that end, the Israelis have created what they call "new facts" to make sure that Jerusalem stays unified. The Jewish Quarter of the Old City, for example, is being meticulously reconstructed, and 2,200 Israelis have settled there; prior to 1947, the Jewish population was only...
...years of Israeli occupation of the peninsula have heightened the Egyptians' sense of loss. As a "last mission," President Anwar Sadat dreams of building a shrine on Mount Sinai at which Christians, Jews and Muslims can pray together. And now that Israel has agreed in principle to withdraw, Egyptian planners are busy drawing up ambitious schemes for transforming the Sinai into a rich national asset. In addition to oil exploration, mining and tourism, the government has plans for reclaiming 700,000 acres of land in the northwestern Sinai by piping in water from the Nile...
...Proposition 13, the tax revolt, the great middle class reaction. And there on the tube was old Go-with-the-flow Jerry Brown himself doing the best broken field running and backtracking since Gale Sayers hung up the cleats. Politicians by the truckload began making the pilgrimage to the shrine of Sir Howard Jarvis, slayer of the mighty dragon of Big Government...
Schmidt was led to his discovery by Haya elders, who showed him a "shrine tree" that they said marked the site of ancient iron smelters long worked by their people. Because the Haya can now buy inexpensive, European-made steel tools and make more money raising coffee and other crops, they stopped producing their own steel some 50 years ago. Thus the only Haya who could recall details of the steelmaking process were very old, and as Schmidt and Avery write, this knowledge was "threatened every day by the passage of time, by death and by age-related infirmities occurring...