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...should we expose our monuments, in humorist Walt Kelly's words, to anything like the Parisian School of underground poster artists and their credo of "Vive le moustache" or the alterationist defacers of New York's Subway School who have taken it upon themselves to redo Grant's Tomb, for example, with all the skill of "a messy monkey armed with a melting chocolate...
...morning hours, the authorities moved into Warsaw's Victory Square and, for the fifth time since May, swept away the 40-ft. flower cross that serves as a popular memorial to the late Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski. By the time official military ceremonies began at noon at the adjacent Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Warsaw residents had already begun to rebuild their cross. While government delegations laid wreaths to the solemn beat of drums, several hundred people gathered around the new cross, praying, flashing V signs and singing their own modified version of the national anthem. It includes such defiant...
West Beirut is becoming the tomb of sympathy for Israel...
...evergreens and flowers that had been placed in Warsaw's Victory Square to honor Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the Polish Primate who died last year. It was the fourth time that the authorities had swept away the cross. Later in the day, as special honor guards marched past the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Victory Square, squads of the ZOMO security forces, who have frequently been used to break up demonstrations, waited in the side streets with their riot gear and water cannons. Said a middle-aged steelworker: "How can you believe in the government's good intentions...
Outwardly, the demonstrations will look much like the gigantic antinuclear march that drew 250,000 protesters to the West German capital last October, carrying such signs as REAGAN: YOUR BOMB WILL NOT BE OUR TOMB. But there will be differences. While some of the earlier protesters had condemned the 300 Soviet SS-20 missiles targeted on Western Europe, the organizers of Thursday's rally have tried to block all mention of Moscow's arms buildup. As a result, what emerged last year as a groundswell of popular feeling opposed to nuclear weapons is now being exploited by West...