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...Tent. The remaining loose ends of the Gatsby package wrapped up smoothly: Karen Black and Scott Wilson as the ill-fated Myrtle and George Wilson; Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband Tom Buchanan; Sam Waterston as the narrator, Nick Carraway; Lois Chiles as Jordan Baker; and finally Howard da Silva, who played Wilson in the 1949 version, as Gatsby's mysterious business connection Wolfsheim, "the man who fixed the 1919 World Series...
Waugh's words now sound ironic. As it celebrated its independence last week after 324 years of first French and then British rule, tiny Grenada (pronounced Gre-noy-da) and its two sister islands were wracked by disorder and threatened by civil war. Telephone and electric service have been out since the beginning of the year, and a general strike has crippled the country's economy. Bananas, one of Grenada's major exports, lie rotting in the fields, and nutmeg and cocoa, the two other principal crops, are piled up in warehouses with no one to load...
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...good-will mission to Southeast Asia, Tanaka had already encountered an embarrassing amount of hostility. His effigy had been burned in Bangkok (TIME, Jan. 21), and on the day of his departure from placid Kuala Lumpur, a handful of activists at the University of Malaysia had staged an auto-da-fe of a puppet labeled Tanaka. But the stop last week at Indonesia was the worst...
...foreign nation" that might wish to cut off the supply of the oil it exports or raise its price to outrageous heights. Still, Simon readily concedes: "My hardest job will be to keep up the momentum -to keep the American people awake to the fact that we da have a problem and will continue to have a problem...