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Although the Soviet Tu-144 became the first civilian aircraft to break the sonic barrier in 1969, the Anglo-French Concorde soon shot several sound-years ahead of its Russian rival with the inauguration of regular transatlantic passenger service in 1976. Last week the Soviet Union belatedly entered the supersonic sweepstakes by initiating regular Tu-144 flights on a little-traveled run between Moscow and Alma-Ata, an industrial city of 860,000 near the Chinese border. Price of a one-way ticket on the once-a-week flight: $113. TIME Moscow Bureau Chief Marsh Clark was the first Western...
Caliban's words to the intruders on his island seem uniquely fitted to one of the bleakest acts of cultural colonization in history: the English subjugation of Ireland, which began with the Anglo-Norman invasion of 1169. In the flowering of Irish monastic culture during what were once routinely called the Dark Ages, the visual arts in Ireland had reached a splendor unequaled in the rest of Europe. But war, burning and pillage destroyed most of the relics...
Blunt and aristocratic, Carver regards himself as "an apolitical general," but he has strong views on Rhodesia. Before flying to Salisbury, he responded sharply to criticism Smith has leveled at Carver's advocacy of majority rule. Said Carver: "If [Smith] doesn't understand that the whole exercise of the Anglo-American plan is to bring about majority rule on the basis of one-man one-vote at the earliest moment, the sooner he damn well understands it, the better." Carver is convinced that the current peace proposals are "the last chance for a just and peaceful settlement in Rhodesia...
...whether the blacks will take over, but when. The bitter guerrilla war against black nationalist soldiers drags on, and Salisbury has begun to take on a Belfast look: bags are searched, windows are taped, and bomb posters are everywhere. For Rhodesia's white minority, the latest Anglo-American peace initiatives-even if successful-will lead only to the inevitability of black rule. Thus thousands of whites are packing up, selling their houses and cars (at huge losses), and emigrating to South Africa and beyond on the "chicken run" (TIME...
Buried in the sprawling narrative are medieval romances, scenes from fierce fairy tales, and fiercer wars that ring with heraldic fury and brighten with the loyalty of warrior to king celebrated in Anglo-Saxon poetry. But there is no single, unifying quest and, above all, no band of brothers for the reader to identify with as they struggle across a perilous land scape. No Hobbits either, with their lame jokes and sheer joy in comradeship and camping out in the countryside that helped keep things rolling, volume after volume, through the dry and brambly patches of the Rings cycle...