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...financial cost of that involvement is underwritten almost entirely by the Soviet Union (see box). And not just young men apply for African duty. Says Vilma Espin, 46, head of the Federation of Cuban Women and wife of Fidel's brother, Defense Minister Raul Castro: "At the height of the war in Angola, we had thousands of letters from women of all ages, including ones in their 70s, asking to go as cooks. One of the most important changes in Cuba since the revolution is that women who were afraid to go out of their houses 20 years...
...proportion to its population, Cuba has more of its sons-and daughters-in Africa fighting for international Marxism than the U.S. had fighting against that cause at the height of its involvement in Viet Nam. Yet to date, Cuban battlefield fatalities have been light compared to American losses in Viet...
Sometimes it's the police who are at fault, he admits. In the early '70s, when clashes between demonstrators and police were at their height, Richardson saw a Cambridge police car trying to run over a student demonstrator on the grass between Winthrop and Kirkland Houses. The student fled into Winthrop with the cop in hot pursuit. Richardson pointed the officer in the wrong direction...
...galleries are flexible enough, with changing dry-wall partitions and even variable-height ceilings, to respond to any size art. For the show of mid-century Americans called "Subjects of the Artist" (one of six exhibitions opening this week), David Smith's Voltri sculptures are displayed in a room that provides witty drama: they are ranked on steps imitative of the Italian amphitheater at Spoleto where they were first shown...
...result, the glacier's front end could shrink back off the shoal into the deeper water upstream. Its new face, extending to the bottom of the fjord, would then be three or more times the height of the old, and quite unstable. Calving could accelerate five to 50 times its current rate. As much as a cubic mile of ice might be dumped into the bay each year for the next 30 to 50 years, until the glacier retreats to a new and stable foothold...