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Labeling Papandreou a Marxist-Leninist, he warns: "The slogan allagi covers the most dangerous subversive efforts with a shroud of mysticism...
...shroud of insecurity hangs over the capital. It has been underscored by several alarming incidents in recent weeks. The first occurred in late January, when a group of pistol-packing youths forced their way into the United Nations staff house in the diplomatic section of Kabul, where a Saudi Arabian reception was taking place. The intruders locked up all the diplomats present, then made off with the building's sophisticated radio equipment, television sets and other valuables. The Saudis severed relations with Afghanistan after the incident, but the robbers have never been apprehended...
...lost its intimacy. Its personal implications have been lost in the shift from home to hospital, from hand-to-hand combat to nuclear devastation. We have dehumanized death with statistics and body counts, with causes and philosophies. We have replaced religious rationale with scientific mysticism, and continued to shroud the language of death in platitudes, acronyms, and euphemisms. Ultimately we have institutionalized death...
...older man, poorly dressed, wandered down the deserted sidewalk and upon the bridge, where the gas--dense enough to make breathing hard even with a soaked handkerchief held over one's nose--hung like a shroud...
...bottles on wire in preparation for taking water samples. Tied weight to wire. Entered sample data on report form. Attended science lecture. Climbed rigging 40 ft. above deck to change light bulbs in the foremast shroud...