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...church near Kinshasa, old women trilled highpitched lullaloos, and the officiating Belgian priest wore a monkey-skin headdress with the tail running down his back. Among the gifts presented to John Paul in Nairobi: primitive paintings, an animal-skin cape, an antelope horn, daggers, a spear and shield, and a tribal headdress that he gamely donned...
...military shield is not only nuclear. Some 39,000 troops are based in South Korea and an additional 44,000 in Japan. Their fundamental purpose: to maintain the military balance in East Asia that is a precondition for continued Japanese political stability and economic growth. On the European continent the U.S. deploys more than 200,000 troops. By comparison, Britain has 55,000 troops stationed outside of its territory, Belgium 25,000, The Netherlands 8,620 and France 34,000. Though West Germany has 495,000 men and women in uniform, none serve outside the Federal Republic...
...counsel ruled that an antiquated passage in the state constitution protected Harvard from any sort of regulation. Since that time, University officials have said repeatedly that they do not think the constitution protects them from zoning requirements, and that in any case they will not use it as a shield. It is difficult to understand, then, why Harvard-employed lobbyist Roger Moore testified in opposition to the University's inclusion with other educational institutions under city zoning codes...
...naked, sun-baked disc of a stage, designed by John Napier, is shaped like an inverted shield. The prophet Calchas has told King Agamemnon that the thousand ships becalmed in the harbor at Aulis will receive no favoring wind to retrieve Helen and ravage Troy unless he makes a blood sacrifice of his daughter Iphigenia. With passive fatalism, Agamemnon sends a duplicitous letter to his wife Clytemnestra asking her to bring Iphigenia to Aulis on the pretext that she is to be given in marriage to Achilles, supreme hero-in-arms...
...skirts and dashed to death from the city's topless towers. One of the most wrenching scenes in all of Greek tragedy is shatteringly performed by Whitelaw when her little boy is taken and returned as a tiny corpse in the shell of Hector's shield...