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...America. And downstairs, a middle-aged woman tries to get into the "security area" the Secret Service man have set up around the candidate. She is armed with a Canon AE-1, 200 mm lens firmly attached. "I don't know how to use this; it's my son-in-law's. But I must see Mr. Reagan. He's so good-looking...
...just to pass moral judgment on the acts of government, but to rule the state directly?a concept enshrined in the constitution that Iran adopted last month. The ideal Islamic government, Khomeini has declared many times, was the five-year reign over the Arabian peninsula of Muhammad's son-in-law Ah', who died...
British imperial rule was temporarily brought back to Africa last week by a tall, well-fleshed Englishman named Christopher Soames. A police band played God Save the Queen as the 59-year-old diplomat, a son-in-law of Winston Churchill, stepped briskly from his Royal Air Force VC10 onto the tarmac of Salisbury Airport. Lord Soames thus be came the first British Governor of Rhodesia since the colony's rebellious white minority illegally declared independence 14 years...
Once this is accomplished, a British Governor will fly to Salisbury to hoist the Union Jack and officially return the country to colonial status. The most likely candidate for that job appears to be Lord Soames, 59, a son-in-law of Winston Churchill's and a Minister Without Portfolio in the Thatcher government. The Governor will be accompanied by a staff of British civil servants, a small number of soldiers and a British police official, Sir James Haughton, who will oversee the Rhodesian police. A British election commissioner will organize the voting. Carrington also intends to establish...
...music was denounced by the Nazis as ''cultural Bolshevism,''Webern stuck it out in Austria, transfixed by the ideal of a triumphant German culture. This decision led indirectly to his bizarre death in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II. Visiting his son-in-law in the town of Mittersill, he was somehow shot during a botched black-market raid being carried out by American G.I.s...