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...Apolo Milton Obote boasted that he was "perhaps the only African leader not afraid of a military coup." Last week Obote was proved to be more foolhardy than farsighted as his army staged Black Africa's 27th coup d'état in little more than a decade. Random battles raged from Kampala, Uganda's lovely capital city in the hills beside Lake Victoria, to Gulu in the north. At the Entebbe International Airport, a rebel tank clanked up to the front door and fired a shell at the far wall; the target was a portrait of Obote...
...professor. His friends were there, many of them in search for jobs as I was, and as I listened to them, so unassuming in their intelligence, so self-depreciating in their manner that they were almost ashamed to look me straight in the eye. At one point in the random discussion, my interviewer reported that he had just lost his first choice, "the one David Reisman said he found intellectually intimidating...
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THERE ARE MANY kinds of hyphenated poets-poet-novelists, poet-painters, poet-playwrights, poet-academics, poet-priests. Random House has decided to put two of them-both poet-novelists-together, and produce a hyphenated book of poetry-criticism. The idea is basically sound, since obviously a man who has worked in two literary fields will be best appreciated by another of his kind...
...million from 1969. Though more agents were hired, the company actually collected only 25% of the debts, compared with 30% in 1969. Some debtors resort to "the hat trick"; they toss all their bills into a hat and at month's end pull out a few at random and pay them...