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...Soviet soldier in East Germany shot and killed a U.S. military officer for trespassing. Perhaps V-E day requires a more sober and moderate reaction than celebration. There are things simply to consider: the selfless heroism of the millions who fought to prevent Hitler's onslaught; the cooperation of proud powers in a right and necessary cause. As a practical lesson, one must also consider how quickly and easily the world allowed a madman to seize it by the throat...
...Eersterus, outside Pretoria, Clive Fisher, a colored glazier, eagerly set about making plans for a formal church wedding to his English-born partner, Adele White, with whom he has been living for five years. "For the first time in my life," said the 34-year-old Fisher, "I feel proud to be a South African...
...into the flames. Bishop Tutu, dressed in purple vestments, pushed his way into the shouting, jostling crowd of angry youths and, as he did, the bruised and beaten man broke free and ran to him. Cried Tutu: "Why don't we use methods of which we will be proud when our liberation is attained?" After Tutu waved the crowd aside, the terrified man was taken to a hospital...
...Francisco is a self-consciously civilized place, pleased by its reasonable scale and unreasonable hills, proud of the slightly loopy beaux arts buildings and the great swaths of pastel houses, altogether seduced by its own fey charms. It follows that San Francisco has a powerful sense of how San Francisco ought to look, and the new ungainly downtown skyline offends that civic vision...
When Nancy went off to visit the aircraft carrier America last week, she told the men, "I hate to drop names, but last night when I kissed your Commander in Chief goodbye, he asked that I pass along a message. He said, 'Nancy, will you tell them how proud I am of them? How often I think about them?' " That message is at once so stagy as to be suspect and still so obviously corny as to be genuine. The actor and the man have become indistinguishable or, as Father Hartke would put it, they always were, we just would...