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Last November, with the Greek government momentarily involved in a leadership crisis, President Makarios decided the time was ripe to "rebalance" the constitution. He submitted a 13-point amendment that effectively stripped the Turkish Cypriots of their safeguards. In a flash, Cyprus was up in arms. The Turkish Cypriots, backed by Ankara with its threats of invasion, cry for taksim-partition-or at least some form of cantonal federation. Greek Cypriot extremists, reviving the threat of enosis with Athens, have seriously suggested that all Turks be forcibly removed from the island and packed off to Turkey. Either solution appears unworkable...
...miniaturizing ability of PCMI, the company's scientists think it has another talent that is even more important. Records made by ultraviolet light are easily correctable. When the recording operator or one of his machines makes an inevitable mistake, the unwanted page can be erased by one quick flash of yellow light. A new page can be printed by ultraviolet in the same place. The observer can watch both erasure and printing in green light, which does not affect the sensitive...
Short on excitement, Trumpet shows a streak of rather whimsical originality in a sequence that has Chief War Eagle speaking Apache lingo while English subtitles flash on the screen. A less significant breakthrough is James Gregory's mock heroic performance as a gruff old Indian fighter who charges into battle spouting quotations from Latin. Since completion of the film, Troy and Suzanne have become Mr. and Mrs. in private life, gamely rallying from disaster for a Hollywood finish of their very own: omnia vincit amor...
...Freshman Flash...
Achtung! By week's end the only clear fact was that the main role in the farce was played by the West German wire service, Deutsche Presse-Agentur. Immediately after getting the flash, the radio station employee checked it on the Teletype with all the wire services who have offices in Bonn. "Following message was received by WDR tonight," he tapped out, then transmitted verbatim the report of K.'s death. In each case he asked: "Can you confirm this?" But somehow the crucial question got dropped from his transmission to D.P.A. in Bonn...