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Mike Hoare thought the Simbas might make their stand at Aru, which had been a main gateway for arms from Uganda. Instead, suicide squads stayed behind in Aru to snipe at the advancing mercenaries, and the bulk of the rebels pulled back in orderly fashion, carrying their arms with them...
But his illusions were soon shattered. On a trip to Harlem to do an article for the New York Times magazine, he was given a copy of the Civil Rights photo-essay collection, The Movement. One picture particularly caught his attention: it showed the burned body of a Negro lynch...
At week's end Turkey's Premier Suat Hayri Urguplu proposed bilateral talks on Cyprus with Greece because, as things are, "We are waiting in darkness, staring at each other, mumbling to ourselves. Big problems are not solved by monologues, only dialogues." Greece answered that it was ready...
Pips & Cows. There were other reasons for confusion. In the darkness, every pip on the portable radar screens and every shadow under the periodic flares that burst over Hill 327 was suspect. One night a cow wandered innocently into range and was gunned down. Three Marines returning from a night...
Too often, television seems esthetically a benighted land; the networks may curse the darkness they have created, but they leave it to the independent and educational channels to light candles of culture. Two glowing examples from the current season: