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...Troop Airlift. Some Western observers read the comparative lull in the fighting last week as a sign that the kind of debate going on in Moscow was also going on in Luanda. As one longtime British Angola watcher put it, Neto and his lieutenants may be realizing that "even if they win the next battle, it's going to be tough to win the war." The Luanda government, moreover, denied that it was solidly in the Soviet camp...
...M.P.L.A. announced last week that it would pursue a policy of nonalignment and deny military bases to any foreign power. At the 15th anniversary celebration of its revolt against Portuguese colonial rule last week, Luanda circumspectly kept Cuban troops and Soviet advisers out of sight. Intelligence sources, meanwhile, said that the Cuban troop airlift has been halted for two weeks. Some observers speculated that a secret quid pro quo had been worked out in exchange for the South African withdrawal...
...control, and for Wertmuller they can only choose how to submit to the situations that confront them pre-formed. Seven Beauties opens with black and white montage of World War II newsreels, clips of Hitler and bombings, which eventually leads into the wreck that allows Pasqualino to desert the troop train and plunges him into the Nazi inferno. The social conditions constraining the characters' action stand outside the narrative itself, temporally distant, colored differently, and represented impersonally. Only when the situation is fully formed and unchangeable can Wertmuller abandon this abstract style to focus on her characters, who naturally must...
...fully described in Solider, the journal of the US armed forces. According to USN&WR the "Army's crack 82nd Airborne Division...spearhead of any such (Middle East) operation...regularly practices parachute drops over the desert around For Bliss, Texas, and annually trains for long distance operations with troop, drops in Greece, Turkey, and South Korea...
...country, requires an uncompromising stand. Though Pretoria has announced the biggest reserve call-up since World War II, State President Nicolaas Didderichs told Parliament at week's end that armed force can bring no lasting solution in Angola, leading to speculation that South Africa might make a partial troop withdrawal...