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...freedom, and they can't take that away"), recalled the Grenada invasion, the Olympics and his D-day anniversary visit to Normandy and told an anecdote about how the dying Ulysses S. Grant saluted a battle-scarred Union veteran ("as Grant's wife and the doctor wept...
...packed congregation last week as he welcomed the evening's special preacher. "We know what difficulties you faced in coming here, Billy Graham," said Piotr Konovalchik. "We rejoice that you are with us tonight." Many young women in the choir, clad in orange dresses and white headbands, wept along with him. As Graham quietly thanked Konovalchik, a clergyman who had come from Moscow strode to the pulpit to offer a prayer: "You shed your blood for Russia too, O Lord. We pray that a surge of revival may start in this house of ours...
Last week in Atlanta, several veterans wept as they testified about their suffering. Adding tension to the proceedings was a study released by Atlanta's Centers for Disease Control, which concluded that soldiers exposed to Agent Orange had no greater risk of having babies with birth defects than did the general population. Said Woody Willis, head of the Nam Vets of Georgia organization: "My gut reaction is that they're trying to sell us down the river like they have in the past...
...veiled echoes of his earlier complaints about Mondale. "We have failed when we became cautious and complacent," he said of his party. He criticized "the policies of the comfortable past that do not answer the challenges of tomorrow." His followers gave Hart a warm ovation, and some wept in the realization that his candidacy was over. Others in the hall felt he had been less than gracious in defeat...
...years for Helen Williams, a founder of 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women. It was 13 years for Jane Campbell, candidate for the Ohio legislature and former ERAmerica. She passed around champagne as the Ferraro nominating speeches ended, while across the aisle Texas women hugged and wept. It was O.K. to cry. "Did you ever think you would see the day?" Texas State Treasurer Ann Richards kept repeating. "I've worked 32 years in politics, and nothing has made me so happy," sobbed Billie Carr, Democratic National Committeewoman. Carr was 27 days old when...