Word: fatalism
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...confederation of regions with considerable political autonomy for each. Ojukwu's Ibos dominate the oil-rich East, and they want to keep things that way. Gowon, commanding 7,000 troops who are armed with sophisticated weapons and stirred by a stern Moslem faith, could easily put intense-perhaps fatal -pressure on Ojukwu's single battalion of 2,500 men. If he decides to, Nigeria may yet add to its grisly record before...
...pioneers of France's New Novel-which is about a decade old now-Robbe-Grillet feels that nothing is so fatal to literature as a concern with "saying something." In his earlier and even more maddening works (The Voyeur, Jealousy), he regarded his characters as objects, and he has extended his experiments in the baffling abstract film scenarios for Last Year at Marienbad and L'Immortelle. "The world is neither significant nor absurd," says...
Crime was supposed to disappear under Communism, and most of the East European press behaves as if it has. But last week Vecernje Novosti featured a fatal stabbing in a Serbian family feud, Politika Ekspres headlined: "READER CAPTURES DANGEROUS CRIMINAL FROM PICTURE IN OUR PAPER...
...fatal accident occurred when Adams tried to land on a beach near his aunt's home in Eastham. He had planned first to land in her back yard, but changed his mind...
...while it looked as if Boeing's medium-haul, three-jet 727, in service since 1964, might be grounded by Government edict. During a five-month period beginning in August 1965, there were four fatal 727 crashes, all of them during the final landing approach. But last week, reporting on one of the four disasters-an American Airlines 727 crash in Cincinnati that took 58 lives-the Civil Aeronautics Board blamed the accident on pilot error and cleared the aircraft altogether. The 727, said the CAB, has "no design deficiencies or unsatisfactory operating characteristics...