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...route to recovering the national government. In the rural temple town of Sriperumbudur, 26 miles southwest of Madras, Gandhi stepped out of his touring car and greeted a crowd of well-wishers. Though the itinerary had been hastily drafted, Sriperumbudur was electric with late-night festivities as a throng of 10,000 turned out to welcome Gandhi. At a far corner of the large, hummocky rally ground was a temporary speaker's platform flanked by VIP and press enclosures, with a barricaded space for photographers in front...
...hometown of Tikrit. At each stop, thousands of followers, mostly young people, cheered him, chanting, "Bush, Bush, listen well, we all love Saddam Hussein!" In Mosul the Iraqi President ostentatiously drew a pistol from his holster and fired several shots over the heads of the crowd. The throng went wild, and the footage was shown over and over on Iraqi television. "Tomorrow, if they were given new instructions, they would chant different slogans," says an East European diplomat who has met Saddam many times. "My impression is that he needs these slogans. They're like a drug...
...show's climactic flashback and visual signature, audiences relive a humiliating moment from the nightly newscasts of April 1975: the last U.S. helicopter to leave hovers just above the embassy in Saigon, its rotors whirring and its engine aroar, while behind a barred gate a throng of dependents, informers, helpers and hangers-on howl to be rescued. Among them is the title character, Kim, a peasant virgin turned bar girl turned soldier's wife-to-be, forlornly waving the now useless paper that says she is entitled to join the soldier far away. That moment shapes Kim's life...
...million people, the elections alone offered insufficient hope of change. Less than a week before the voting, thousands gathered in the port city of Durres, drawn by fantastic rumors of waiting ships, including a ferryboat bound for Boston. Police fired automatic weapons over the heads of a stone-throwing throng trying to storm the harbor; 29 people, including 12 police, were reported injured. Earlier in March some 20,000 Albanians had scrambled aboard any boat bound for the nearest ports in Italy, and thousands more are desperate to leave...
...under the terms of a home-rule bill being considered by the State Legislature, the weekend crowds that throng the local bars may have to fight a little harder for a table...