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...once German lands now held by Poland and Russia, the East German Communist regime imposed the severest curbs on travel in or out of Berlin since the 1949 blockade. For five days, said the East Germans, no West German would be allowed to enter East Germany or East Berlin without a special pass. The East Germans also warned the allies against flying "militarists and irredentists" into West Berlin along the air corridors that link the city with West Germany...
Fortnight ago Lumumba's troops had captured without a shot the town of Bakwanga, capital of a would-be autonomous republic called "Mining State." But when they sought to move out of Ba kwanga and "pacify" the rest of Mining State, hundreds of fierce Lumumba-hating Baluba tribesmen attacked through the forest, driving the central-government troops back into town. From sources unknown, the anti-Lumumba forces have acquired automatic weapons and mortars. Reports from Bakwanga at week's end told of streets littered with almost 300 bodies. The few remaining whites were said to have taken refuge...
...pledged subservience to the Shah. And what hangs most ominously over all Iranian life, too often at court as well as in business life, is the ingrained Iranian tradition of corruption and favoritism, casually explained away by the Persian saying: "Let no man of rank be a tree without fruit...
...offset these painful economic considerations, Verwoerd last week pulled out some political stops. He called an end to the state of emergency under which South Africans have lived since Sharpeville, released thousands of political prisoners who have been held without charge. To ensure plenty of scary headlines on the eve of the referendum, Sept. 12 was set for the trial of David Pratt, the English-born farmer who shot but only lightly wounded Verwoerd in April. In the back country, Nationalist campaigners are warning voters that there will be ways to tell who voted against the republic. And Verwoerd himself...
Brief, well-structured and without bravura effects, Wallant's novel compresses whole chapters about the sorrowing man and his marriage into a few sentences. Plumber Joe Berman, the hero, packs a quarter-century into a single moment of nostalgia as he daydreams about his wife on their 25th anniversary: "He knew the little collapses of her body, the age-ugly folds and wrinkles, and he loved and revered her all the more for the neat, attractive exterior she was still capable of. He was her proud ally in the public appearance...