Word: robed
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development Edgar Tekere, 43, and seven youthful bodyguards, charged with murdering a white farm manager four months ago. Flanked by his lawyer in a Salisbury courtroom last week, Tekere glowered menacingly as white South African-born Justice John Pittman, wearing the traditional red robe and curly wig, began reading the verdict. Pittman's dry voice droned on for 50 minutes, but his final words rang out like a shot: "All the accused are acquitted...
...Parisian dawn last week as he pounded on a colleague's door were equally bizarre. Close by the doorway towered the stone walls of the 186-year-old Ecole Normale Superieure, an elite graduate school for the best and the brightest students of France. The agitated man in robe and pajamas banging at the door with his dire tidings was no less prestigious: Louis Althusser, 62, among the diminishing survivors of the country's great postwar intellectual set and an academic star at the school. Althusser is a respected author, critic and interpreter of both Montesquieu and Marx...
...THAT PRO-KLAN or anti-Klan?" this enormous figure in a white robe and hood demanded, and what could the poor guy say? After all, most people wouldn't read the book he was passing out--the John Birch classic "None Dare Call It Conspiracy"--but it presumably has little to say on the subject of the Invisible Empire. "Read it--see for yourself," he ventured, his shoulders quivering under his polyester suit. Squinting through embroidered eyeholes, the Klansman leafed through the book, which offers conclusive proof that the Marxists who celebrate their religion on Saturday are responsible for virtually...
...conversation ended there, moderation, played by the Bircher, would have triumphed. But he had to say it, courageous in a way. "I guess the only thing we don't entirely agree about is Blacks," he said. "What?" the robed figure cried. "What has a nigger ever done for you? Tell me, what has one ever done for you?" The short guy, he blanched a little, and the words started to spill out fast--"Oh, I know in general they're a problem, and for the most part you're right that they're a blight. But I knew one once...
...murdered. Many are in prison. He has special nightmares about Candyman. "He was a boxer like me," Ramos recalls. "He was set up trying to rip off a dealer and shot five times in the chest. The funeral was very, very sad. They put Candyman's gloves and robe on top of his coffin. When my mother and sisters saw him, they saw me lying there...