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...Aranda threatened to publish many more documents. "No one has the right to sell out the people of Israel," he added. "Shalom!" The speech led many Frenchmen to believe that he was Jewish. As it turned out, Aranda is Catholic, conservative and, to the consternation of the government, a staunch Gaullist. The Mirage statement, he explained grandly, was just "a poetic touch, a flower on the dung heap...
David Warner's lame, stuttering Claudius is ironical, resilient, self-deprecatingly witty and wistfully sad as he realizes that even an Emperor cannot restore freedom to a people who no longer desire it. This is Playwright John Mortimer's staunch salute to Robert Graves' novels I, Claudius and Claudius the God, but as drama it is a sloppy counterfeit...
...most bizarre occurrence, one which forced the rebels to move before they had planned, took place some 7000 miles away in the Carribean. Henrique Malta Galvao, a former colonial High Inspector and a staunch opponent of the then dictator Antonio de Oliveria Salazar, seized the Portuguese luxury liner Santa Maria," the second largest ship in the nation's merchant navy. Along with 68 men armed with machine guns. Galvao hijacked the ship after leaving Curacao with 600 passengers and 300 crew members aboard...
...with his then-black beard bristling over his black cassock, visited each of the congregations under his jurisdiction, patiently healing the wounds. "Leave your arguments outside the church door," Athenagoras told them. "You will find them there when you come out." At the same time he was such a staunch U.S. patriot that he tried to enlist in the Army on the day after Pearl Harbor. Athenagoras (and Archbishop Michael, who succeeded him after he was elected Ecumenical Patriarch in 1948) joined other Orthodox churchmen in a campaign for public recognition. Most states now recognize Orthodoxy as a "major faith...
...intense city of seven million people, with an older generation that has suffered deeply-20 million Soviet citizens died in World War II-and a postwar generation that asks not what it can do for Communism, but what Communism can do to make life better. Soviet citizens remain staunch patriots and believe in their system, but they now seem intent on making it work for them. No one talks about Communist-capitalist "convergence," but the Soviet Union is surely developing Western tastes-and the problems that accompany them...