Word: refugees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shah's Refuge
High as the price may be, the nation's honor requires that we now repay the Shah's [Dec. 10] long and faithful friendship with a permanent refuge in this country. No pious hypocrisy can wash away this obligation.
It was the Feast of St. Andrew, a patron saint of Eastern Orthodoxy, and a visitor had come to a dingy cathedral in a slum quarter of Istanbul, the last refuge of Orthodoxy's symbolic center, the once mighty Patriarchate of the Byzantine Empire. There last week, sitting opposite...
Ingmar Bergman's Magic Flute, always cited as the best-realized opera film prior to Don Giovanni, neatly sidestepped all the conceptual problems of the hybrid genre--it pretended to be a filmed record of a performance in a provincial opera house, with shots of the audience thrown in to...
When he entered a Manhattan hospital for medical treatment last month, the Shah joined a large contingent of former heads of state-some honorable, some not-who have sought refuge in the U.S. Alexander Kerensky, Prime Minister of a short-lived democracy in post-Czarist Russia, eventually found a home...