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...both foes and former friends rejected the latest Watergate maneuverings, many White House aides appeared grim and gloomy. The President, however, showed no visible strain. At the East Room swearing-in ceremony of William E. Simon as Secretary of the Treasury, Nixon looked relaxed and controlled. Nor was there any sign of obvious strain the following day, when he discussed the economy for two hours with Republican congressional leaders, including some who had severely criticized him earlier in the week...
...Grim Outlook. While the situation inside Portugal was for the moment merely unsettled, the outlook in the country's African territories was getting grim. The junta wants to elevate Portuguese Guinea, Mozambique and Angola to membership in a multiracial federation in which the territories would be granted a measure of autonomy but not independence. This scheme satisfies neither the colonialists nor the colonials. General Francisco Costa Gomes, the armed forces commander in chief, made a sudden flying visit to Angola to reassure the 750,000 white settlers there that "Mother Portugal" would not abandon them. He was obviously concerned...
...drought has claimed an equally grim toll in parts of Ethiopia. Provincial bureaucrats kept the horrific dimensions of the catastrophe secret from Addis Ababa, fearing that bad news would anger and embarrass Emperor Haile Selassie and perhaps lead to their own dismissal. Finally, last spring, the number of deaths grew so great that the bureaucrats had to admit their existence and ask for international aid. At first the drought seemed confined to eastern Ethiopia. But a new government survey uncovered big pockets of famine to the south and southeast of the capital. In Bale province alone an estimated...
Even if this year's relief effort forestalls mass starvation, the long-term outlook for Africa's hunger belt is at best grim. A ministerial-level committee of the Sahelian nations is seeking foreign grants of $700 million to fund 126 long-range projects, such as dams, reforestation, transport networks and rebuilding of decimated herds. But the only certain means of guaranteeing that the present catastrophe will not repeat itself lies with population control rather than with food supplies...
Rubin's vision of the Viet Nam War through the prism of a grim fairy tale may not satisfy rationalists who demand an accounting of the conflict's cause and effect, a ledger of lessons to be learned for future profit. Successful art, however, satisfies another human need: the desire not to calculate but to know in the heart how things are. While The Barking Deer is not the whole story, it is a drop of moisture in a desert of data. Like those birthday dewdrops, it bears spirits that should be passed...