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...seven hours satisfaction gave way to shock. In a daring assault that Washington officials grudgingly rated as brilliant, Communist sappers moved mortars and rockets undetected up to the city gates. Then in four murderous hours, they destroyed the airport, the Cambodian air force (about 40 craft) and tons of precious fuel and ammunition while hitting half a dozen other targets in and around Phnom-Penh. The speed, stealth and success of the raids ominously echoed the assaults that in an earlier and darker stage of the war repeatedly ripped places like Pleiku, Bien Hoa and Saigon-and did much...
...Sadd El Ali has underscored how desperately Egypt requires even more development. In the decade needed to build the dam, nearly 10 million Egyptians were born-more than enough to fill all the jobs that will be created by Aswan's throbbing turbines and precious water...
...city scene familiar in particular to New Yorkers. But Margaret's inner scene will be recognized and applauded by young mothers everywhere who, like Margaret, are "too old for an identity crisis and yet not past the age of uncertainty." If the authors insights are at times more precious than rare, her message is not. It is meant for those who dig men and the other two Ms and ask only to be out of the doll's house part...
This is not to suggest that the formula I offer will have easy consequences-for there is, of course, no easy way out of our present Southeast Asian crisis. But it can, under the right leadership, move us gradually toward something new and precious: a tempering of our national grandiosity, an end to our special sense of benevolence as a nation-an erosion of the ugly qualities that accompany such overweening confidence, including excessive fear of "loss" or "failure." It can lead, in time, toward a new national maturity: a sense that we are only one of many, and that...
...three dollars in some good hard-core pornography. For if you think you can get some fun out of Ryan's Daughter you should forget it. Outrage is the dominant emotion you will feel on leaving the theatre, straight or stoned-outrage at having let four hours of your precious inalienable life be filched away by doddering sentimentalists. It's scarcely believable that Irish scenery so gorgeously lit could be rendered so sickening by the likes of Robert Bolt, who collaborated (for once the right word) very closely with Lean on the screenplay. But it's true: even...