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...slogans the women shouted were telling: "Down with Khomeini," "We shall fight the veil," "In the dawn of freedom, there is an absence of freedom." "We fought for freedom with the men," one woman explained. "None of us knew freedom would come with chains." Political fashions were changing fast: many of the women now denouncing the veil as a mark of repression gladly wore the all-covering chador as an anti-Shah symbol during the revolution...
...that time Smith's black nationalist colleagues promised that it would end within weeks. Military and civilian casualties have mounted from 13 a day then to nearly 50 a day now. Last week, for the first time, a park area in Salisbury itself was under a dusk-to-dawn curfew. In the eastern highlands on the Mozambique border, fleeing white farmers have abandoned some 160,000 acres of farm land, or about 10% of the acreage under cultivation; the 6,500 who remain tend their acres from within fortress-like arrays of fences, and travel through the bush...
...Dawn's Early Light...
During the early 1950s, parents in the little town of St. George in southwestern Utah often woke their children up at 6 a.m., hustled them to the top of Black Hill on the western edge of the community, and let them watch the mushroom clouds rising into the dawn sky over the atomic-bomb testing site in neighboring Nevada. When a pinkish-red cloud drifted over St. George hours later, the parents were not frightened; after all, the Atomic Energy Commission had assured them that "there is no danger" from radioactive fallout. Some parents even held Geiger counters on their...
...message, "I can change, I want to change, all I need is for you to believe in me, love me and I will change." And it ends with Dubin sneaking out the back door to Fanny and, never spending the night, sneaking back to his broken wife before dawn. Do we care...