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...President Sadat has sold them out. Last week some hard-line but amateurish militants went so far as to attack the agreement through an assault on one of Sadat's own diplomats. Though the seizure of Ambassador Mahmoud Abdel Ghaffar and two aides in Egypt's Madrid embassy ended in total failure 16 tense hours after it had begun, it did set an ominous precedent as the first use of Palestinian terror tactics against Egypt...
...periods of ancient volcanism. Charleston, S.C., for instance, is more than 1,000 miles away from the edge of the North American plate; yet it lies in a seismically active area (see map page 39) and was hit by a major quake that killed 27 people in 1886. New Madrid, Mo., near the middle of the plate, was the site of three huge quakes in 1811 and 1812. Wrote one resident of the then sparsely populated area: "The whole land was moved and waved like the waves of the sea. With the explosions and bursting of the ground, large fissures...
...Madrid Bureau Chief Gavin Scott did most of the reporting from Lisbon, where he has good sources close to the ruling three-man junta. "Some of the military and government officials may say they are indifferent to world attention," Scott reports, "but from my experience, they seem to relish it." Within 48 hours of his arrival in the Portuguese capital in October 1974, Scott had arranged to talk with the President, the Premier, and the chief of the nation's Communist Party. The accessibility and volubility of Portuguese leaders contrasts sharply with the remoteness of government officials...
...very good health, just like Argentina." That was the sanguine remark of Josó López Rega, Argentina's star-gazing gray eminence, as he arrived last week in Madrid, supposedly to become a special ambassador from Buenos Aires in Europe. In fact, his comment was inaccurate in almost every respect...
...form of The Hemingway Play allows four Hemingways to appear onstage at once. Four separate personalities, each from a different phase of Hemingway's life, meet one another in a Madrid cafe. The complexity of the man is revealed through characters who share common memories but cannot sort out the truth from the self-perpetuated myth. There's a showdown: the legendary man against himself, depicted so clearly by Hunter that the viewer is made aware of elements of the hell Hemingway must have been going through just prior to the taking of his own life...