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...accordance with Wahhabi tradition, Faisal's body was washed with soap and hot water, wrapped in a seamless white sheet, and covered by a dark brown shroud. The corpse lay in state briefly at the al Id al Kabir Mosque, which was sur rounded by more than 100,000 mourning Saudis. "Where goes our knight?" some cried. "Where goes our protector against confusion and poverty?" During the fatiha, the introductory in vocation, and again during the prayer for the dead, Arab dignitaries prostrated themselves on the ground. At length, the King's body was transported, with...
...army spokesman drew up a list of the dead and wounded, a stretcher passed. There was a body on it, about the size of a child, wrapped in an old yellow shawl that was now a shroud. Authorities tentatively identified it as that of an elderly Frenchwoman who had been staying at the hotel...
...industry's disaster, however, has come as a deep shock to the city. A shroud of resignation seems draped over Detroit's huge black community; activist leaders-who have been less active in recent years than they used to be-are encountering more apathy than anger on the streets, even though unemployment among blacks may be as high...
...proper contempt for Martins--further into nowhere, down a wet, leaf-littered road lined by the stumps of trees cut down during the war. Scenes like this are unchanging and final. When Harry Lime suddenly appears on the second story of a bombed-out building, standing in a shroud of a black overcoat, robed and stiff like the ragged statue propped beneath him to the left, he is more than a clue or an answer in a mystery--he is what crawls out from under the rock when the world is destroyed. This is the kind of moment that makes...
...similarity in the names of the two places may be a coincidence, but to Poles and others familiar with the event, it suggests that the President was used by Brezhnev to shroud in confusion the responsibility for one of the war's most vicious crimes...