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South Viet Nam's chief complaint is that cease-fire violations are continuing at the rate of as many as 150 a day. The Saigon command charges that 11,724 South Vietnamese soldiers and 1,991 civilians have been killed since the ceasefire, but claims that South Vietnamese forces have responded by killing 41,825 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong troops...
...sets are purchased, Anspach will channel 5% of all profits into a special legal aid fund that he has set up for small companies victimized by conglomerates. If the fund produces the desired effect, executives of large, errant corporations may some day be forced to obey a command on the Anti-Monopoly board: "Go to court. The judge has called an extra session." Still, that is preferable to Monopoly's "Go directly to jail...
Firmly Opposed. Sadat reshuffled his army's command. He replaced his Chief of Staff, Lieut. General Saadeddin Shazli, who had been praised only two months ago for his troops' daring canal crossing. The new Chief of Staff is Major General Mohamed Abdel Ghani el Gamasi, the soft-spoken officer-diplomat who represented the Egyptians at the Kilometer 101 negotiations. This change, as well as the appointment of new commanders for the Second and Third Armies, was interpreted in Cairo as a strong indication of Egypt's desire for a peaceful settlement...
...Alexander V. Gorbatov, 81, the Soviet army general who was arrested during the Stalin purge of 1938, sentenced to 15 years in the icy Kolyma concentration camp but later "rehabilitated" to fight the Nazis; in Moscow. Gorbatov joined the army and fought successfully in the civil war, rising to command a cavalry regiment. Following his arrest for "liberalism," along with many other army leaders, he refused to sign a false confession even after being tortured. Reinstated in 1941, he eventually commanded the Third Army in its march on Berlin...
...conducting his own music, Britten has also in recent years given us fascinating interpretations of other composers' work −notably the Mozart G Minor Symphony and the Bach Brandenburg Concertos. The neglected Fairy Queen-half opera half masque-is perhaps his finest effort: vibrantly joyous, magisterial in its command yet tender in the plaints of the soloists (especially Bass John Shirley-Quirk's Next, winter comes slowly...