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...neighbors is that the Soviet Union will become actively involved on the side of the monarchies' enemies. So far the Soviets have treated the unrest in the region with relative restraint. But to the east, in Afghanistan, the Soviet role has been aggressive and heavyhanded. Within the past three weeks, according to U.S. intelligence estimates, the Soviets may have tripled their military assistance to the Marxist regime of Hafizullah Amin, which is fighting to hold its own against a country-wide rebellion by Muslim tribesmen. The Soviets are now believed to have 5,000 to 10,000 military advisers...
...every other Soviet newspaper carried little else but good wishes to him from groups of factory workers and collective farmers, some of whom would double their production in his honor. But since the dictator's death in 1953, and especially since Nikita Khrushchev's famed destalinization speech three years later, few Soviet citizens have felt the urge to celebrate the birth of a tyrant whose reign of mass police terror cost the country millions of lives...
...their own "chairs" of tenure, will be grouped in departments administered by a pool of professors and two elected students. The law also takes aim at another hallowed institution on the other side: the "eternal" students, who by the old rules, could take-and fail -the same exam three times a year without being drummed out. Now, to the wrath of the 60,000-member student union (E.F.E.E.), exams are being held only twice a year, and failure means repeating the academic year...
Just in time for the holidays, Broadway has a festive new ornament, an all-black musical version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Scrooge is a Harlem slumlord with a goatee and an Afro, Marley's ghost marches through eternity in sneakers, and the three Christmas ghosts are high-stepping disco dancers. Even Dickens' capacious imagination could probably not have envisioned such sequins and flash. Taken on its own good-natured terms, however, Comin' Uptown is a high-gloss package that should bright en everybody's holiday...
...sale in years has come closer to craziness than Sotheby Parke Bernet's Auction 4290 in Manhattan on Oct. 25. It took only three minutes and 45 seconds to gavel down Frederic Edwin Church's The Icebergs for $2.5 million. That was the third highest bid ever made for a painting at auction* and more than twice as much as any other American work of art has ever fetched (see ESSAY). In all, the 264 works by 146 American painters of the 19th and 20th centuries posted a record for a sale...