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...pastime. "It's a good outlet now when there's so much tension," says Anne Douglas. Indeed, there are still plenty of backyard pools and private tennis courts. But instead of holding a tennis tournament at the exclusive and expensive Beverly Hills Tennis Club, followed by a lavish buffet, tennis fans like Dinah Shore and Efrem Zimbalist Jr. are settling for simple at-home matches with pizza and hot dogs served up afterward...
Thus, once again, a seemingly paradoxical fact was underlined: although the Soviet Union enjoys growing influence in the Arab world, there is strong and sometimes savage resistance toward local Communism. The Soviets have supplied billions in aid to "revolutionary" Arab governments. They have received lavish expressions of friendship as well as vital military facilities in return. But they have never been able to install a pro-Communist regime in the area. There are Baathist radicals in Syria and Iraq, and Socialists in Algeria, Egypt, Libya and southern Yemen. But Communists in power...
More and more, Gaddafi has tended to ignore the plight of impoverished Libyans. His dual preoccupations are the destruction of Israel and, through lavish outlays of his country's oil money, making himself Nasser's successor as the leader of Pan-Arabism. He pays a $55 million annual subsidy to Egypt and, before Hussein cracked down on the fedayeen, he gave funds to Jordan as well, for the fight against Israel. Last fall, after General Hafez Assad seized power in Syria, Gaddafi insolently flew into Damascus to look him over. Apparently Gaddafi approved; he left Assad...
...hanging in one of Rabat's main squares depicted him in golfing clothes. At the 18th hole, U.S. Ambassador Stuart W. Rockwell chatted with General Mohammed Medbouh, commander of the King's military household. "We are the only ones who take golf seriously," sniffed Medbouh. ∙ A lavish buffet, which included lobster, smoked salmon, roast sheep and couscous, was laid out, along with champagne and mint tea. Hassan ate with his seven-year-old son, Crown Prince Sidi Mohammed, one of his five children, under a special canopy. Near by sat Habib Bourguiba Jr., son of Tunisia...
...South Korean government, which licensed four legal casinos three years ago, now takes in about $2,000,000 annually from the operations. Macao, long the mecca of Asian gambling, has been upgraded from seedy dens where croupiers wore undershirts to gilded halls in lavish hotels boasting Thai masseuses. The tiny Portuguese colony off the Chinese mainland today draws 1,300,000 visitors a year, many of them sped there by gleaming hydrofoils or ferryboats featuring strip shows...