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...Henry Lee Schatz, 31, an agricultural attache (from Post Falls, Idaho). Anders read a carefully prepared statement thanking reporters for keeping their sensitive secret for so long but saying of their colleagues still held captive: "We must not and will not forget them." Then the six paid a solemn, low-key visit to the White House, where the President termed them "six brave Americans" and declared, "We all love...
Wearing his familiar black turban and cape, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini sat on the flat roof of his single-story house in Qum and waved impassively to thousands of followers jamming the narrow streets below. The occasion was the solemn Shi'ite religious holiday known as Arba'un. Many of the pilgrims ritualistically flogged themselves with small chains to the beat of drums and tambourines; others wore white shrouds, symbolizing their willingness to die for Islam. "The only leader is Khomeini!" chanted the multitude, as red-lettered posters proclaimed DEATH TO AMERICA. It was one of the Ayatullah...
...cruelly juxtaposed on another counter, just across, to remind you that you are old, or will be soon, and will be in want of makeup. Back at the makeup counter, you shrink under the sullen gaze of the desperately nubile females trapped in their placards. There are piles of solemn light green pamphlets like the AWAKE pamphlets the Jehovah Witnesses push on passersbys. IS SKIN PERFECTIBLE? catechize the covers. Is man? you think is the older question, but inured to devaluations of this sort, you study the booklet from cover to cover...
Botha has also run into heated opposition from the verkrampte (rigid) wing of South Africa's ruling Nationalist Party. The solemn, humorless Prime Minister has been heckled as a "Judas" by Afrikaner audiences. In four parliamentary by-elections last month, more than half the eligible voters boycotted the balloting as a sign of displeasure with the new policies. Former Cabinet Minister Connie Mulder has founded a new pro-apartheid Action Front for National Priorities that could attract the support of disillusioned Afrikaners during the next election...
...Senate floor, Kennedy did not join in the debate, though he is a master at it, acting solemn one moment and laughing at himself the next. (One afternoon, he thundered at Republican Orrin Hatch of Utah, "No, I will not yield, sir," and made a great show of being enraged...