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...nola may have to do even greater things if Portugal is to keep its new-found democracy. Even as the cheers echoed through Lisbon and the ubiquitous red carnations were still fresh, the dark outline of Portugal's multitudinous problems loomed behind the celebrations like a grim, surrealistic bas-relief...
Mozambicans-black, white and brown-are still somewhat stunned by what happened in Lisbon. The great majority seem pleased at the pronouncements from Portugal; yet there is little open ebullience. The most emotional scene was at the grim Machava prison on the outskirts of Lourenço Marques. The first 554 of an estimated 12,000 prisoners locked up by the secret police for helping FRELIMO (Mozambique Liberation Front) were set free in a moving ceremony on May Day. A large crowd, including many whites, gathered to embrace the released prisoners, most of whom admitted to reporters that they...
...with U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger due in the region at the end of this week to negotiate disengagement, the Israeli government sent out signals that the Secretary's assignment might be more difficult than he thought. Defense Minister Moshe Dayan went on television with a grim estimate of the situation: "When Kissinger arrives here, he may find a battlefield instead of a negotiation table...
...reclusive Pynchon himself. Others believed that his performance was a clever parody of Pynchon's tortuous style. The ceremonies were not all fun and games. Poetry co-winners were Allen Ginsberg and Adrienne Rich. Ginsberg's standin, Poet Peter Orlovsky, clad in a T shirt covered with grim statistics from the Viet Nam War, quoted Ginsberg: "There is no longer any hope for the salvation of America." Rich somberly accepted her award on behalf of "all the women whose voices have gone and still go unheard in a patriarchal world." Obviously eager to put the proceedings into proper...
...into maturity, writing graduate theses that never get done, waiting for the perfect job which offers all the qualities of post-revolutionary life as well as tenure. Despite their lack of spine, or rather because of it, like jellyfish, they have declined to be beaten into place in the grim division of labor that has descended on us. They are the laggard remnants of an unruly "new working class" vanguard which has long since marched stiffly and sullenly to take up positions in the new corporate order. As such they are admirable, in a sense, but not enviable...