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Mujib added that he found his country worse off than he had expected. "Very few times have I wept," he said. "This time I wept. We have almost 3,000,000 dead. I am sure of that figure because my organization is in every village; they know who has been killed." Then, with visible emotion, he asked: "Why did the United States Government remain silent...
...coronation occurred at the moment when South Africa's Minister of Bantu Administration, Michiel Botha, presented letters of appointment to Prince Zwelithini, whose father, Chief Cyprian, died 18 months ago. Standing stiffly in a plain black suit with a leopard-skin sash draped incongruously across it, the Prince wept with emotion. Then the crowd roared a traditional tribute: "Bay-ete wenawendhlovu [Hail, noble elephant]," and Zwelithini took his place on a throne of scented tamboetie wood with arm rests carved in the shape of lions...
...attempts to help those who are oppressed." Render complained that at the Pentagon he was "treated like a 21-star general." At one point, Mrs. Chisholm was so moved by the angry testimony of one black ex-G.I. that she averted her eyes from the witness and wept...
There were complications: Peter was still in the process of divorcing his first wife, by whom he had had three daughters, one mentally retarded. "Also," said Beverly, saving the worst for last, "he's not Jewish." Mama wept and cried out: "Why does everything have to happen to you?" But soon Peter, who is descended from John Alden on both sides of his family, was plying Mama with books, flowers and Yiddishisms?"A toast to MGM, meine ganze Mishpocheh [all my family]." In 1956 the couple were married in Estelle Liebling's living room, standing on the same spot...
...book is sort of an instant history of the Jews, from Abraham to Moshe Dayan. It is pretty damned skylarky for a people that wept beside the waters of Babylon and have undergone agonies of tribulation throughout their existence. The music is homogenized rock international, and the dances are United Nations hora. The girls are smashingly good-looking, probably the most fetching chorus line we are likely to see all season. If any one of them opts to stay in the U.S., she can make some deserving swain a very happy...