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...sign of nervousness: four major articles on China appeared in the Soviet press last week alone. The most important one, titled "Questions Calling for a Practical Answer," was written by Georgy Arbatov, director of Moscow's U.S.A. Research Institute and widely regarded as the Kremlin's foremost Americanologist. It described the Nixon trip as "a matter of grave consequence for the Soviet people, for world socialism, for the entire international situation, for world peace...
...bread." T shirts, sweatshirts and nighties announce I AM A SWEETBACK. This fall his play Ain't Supposed to Die a Natural Death opens on Broadway. Coming up: Sweetback douche powder. Boasts Van Peebles: "You are looking at a black conglomerate." But he still considers himself first and foremost a film maker-and not necessarily for blacks only. "If films are good," he says, "the universality of the human experience will transcend the race and creed and crap frontiers...
CAIRO is Moscow's foremost client in the Middle East. Yet during the brief period two weeks ago when it looked as if the Sudan might fall under the control of a pro-Communist regime, Egypt's leaders moved swiftly to prevent that from happening. They airlifted some 2,000 Sudanese troops from positions along the Suez Canal to Khartoum to ensure the success of General Numeiry's countercoup, flying them there in Soviet-supplied Antonov transports. According to a Cabinet Minister from neighboring Libya, both Egypt and Libya were preparing to intervene if the countercoup failed...
Died. Bernhard Paumgartner, 83, Austrian conductor-musicologist and one of the world's foremost authorities on Mozart; in Salzburg. Paumgartner had served only the first five of his 47 years as head of Salzburg's famed Mozarteum (conservatory) when in 1922 he joined Richard Strauss, Director Max Reinhardt and Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal in organizing the Salzburg Festival. Before he began his eleven years as the festival's president in 1960, Paumgartner proved eminently resourceful. Once, while recording Don Giovanni, he went so far as to slap a soprano in order to evoke a properly furious scream...
Died. Gerald P. Nye, 78, Republican Senator from North Dakota for 19 years and one of the nation's foremost isolationists; in Washington, D.C. A crusading country editor and partisan of 1924 Progressive Party Presidential Candidate Robert La Follette, Nye was appointed to fill a Senate vacancy in 1925. He arrived on Capitol Hill sporting bulbous yellow shoes and an "oaken-bucket haircut," but soon dispelled the notion that he was a bumpkin: he used his seat on the Public Lands Committee to expose the Teapot Dome oil-lease scandal. A steadfast foe of America's entry into...