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...director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. "Our society has left crime to local police. When should the Federal Government step in?" The answer is when local police and prosecutors fail to perform their duties in a color-blind way-and before such injustices arouse the equally outrageous resort to killing, looting and burning...
...last resort, an endowment can be dipped into when there is no other way to stay in business. The Lyric Opera of Chicago has had to use its fund in just this way, draining it from $2 million to a current $3,500. The San Francisco Opera, on the other hand, is able to plow half the income from its $5 million fund back into future growth...
Oppressive heat. Scalding sunlight. Not a whisper of a breeze. The place is a vacation resort near Marrakesh in Morocco, but the guests' garden patio might almost be a military compound under siege. Its protective wall is topped with shards of implanted glass and barbed wire. Palm fronds are silhouettes against an implacably blue sky, and in the distance one hears the eerie, insinuative call of the muezzin, summoning the faithful of Islam to prayer...
Despite certain obvious contrivances, Mecca is a richly entertaining and captivating drama. Whitehead does not believe in low-profile characterization. Whether spiky or spicy, each of his people, including the Arab resort manager (Arnaldo Santana), has a clear personality. They may not elicit affection, but what they choose to do or not do is never boring...
...assault was indeed a measure of last resort, undertaken after attempts to negotiate the release of the hostages had failed repeatedly. The gunmen who had seized the embassy at Princes Gate, in the fashionable Kensington district of London, were bitterly opposed to the regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran. They had demanded the release of 91 Iranian Arab political prisoners who were being held in Iran, as well as some form of autonomy for the largely Arabic-speaking province of Khuzistan. During the early days of the embassy siege, the terrorists treated their prisoners reason ably well...