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Whatever her motives, the Prime Minister's triumphal voyage was nonetheless a highly successful distraction. Just before her plane landed in the Falklands, the local radio station was alerted of the impending visit and broke the news to the islanders. The 900 residents of Port Stanley, now far outnumbered by the 4,000 British troops on the islands, raced outdoors into the blustery summer afternoon. Tousled by the wind, Thatcher said of her presence: "It is more than a visit. It is a profoundly moving experience." Throughout the tour, the Prime Minister repeated her pledge to safeguard the freedom...
When the man who initiated the present U.S. policy to ward China returned to Peking last month to commemorate his triumphal 1972 presidential visit, China's current leaders hailed him as "an old friend" and treated him as a visiting head of state. Shortly after Richard Nixon's return home, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott interviewed him at his office in New York City and found him relishing the role of elder internationalist. Now 69, Nixon is convinced that his accomplishments in foreign policy will vindicate his presidency. He is proudest of his role in renewing U.S. relations...
Indeed it was. Union Station's architect, Daniel H. Burnham, operated on a simple motto: "Make no little plans." He modeled his beaux-arts palace on Rome's Diocletian Baths and the triumphal Arch of Constantine. When it opened in 1907, luxuriously appointed with mahogany, crystal, brass and marble, its 760-ft.-long, 45-ft.-high concourse was the largest room in the world under a single roof. Niches in the façade held carved avatars of fire, electricity, agriculture and mechanics, each weighing 25 tons...
...Steinbrenner's money and methods have quickened a lot of the standard prejudices about the Yankees. They were always the Romans of baseball: triumphal, imperial. They were dynastic; they cherished a memory of the Ruth and the DiMaggio and the Mantle days. But there was rarely much charm or color or heart in rooting for them. The Yankees never appealed much to that side of the American character that likes to root for the underdog...
...decision to attack Iraq last week was taken personally by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Despite his advanced age (82) and frail health, the religious leader has relinquished none of the levers of power that he grasped upon his triumphal return to Tehran 3½ years ago. Under Iran's Islamic Republican constitution, Khomeini's role as Velayat-e-Faqih, or religious guardian, gives him more power than either President Seyed Ali Khamene'i or Prime Minister...