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...tiny border town of Busia, Kenya, about 235 miles northwest of Nairobi. The throng was there to greet the first convoy of cars and buses carrying nearly 300 Americans, Europeans and Asians who were evacuated from Uganda last week following the coup on July 27 that ousted President Apollo Milton Obote. In contrast to the friendly welcome, the travelers gave chilling eyewitness accounts of the confusion and fear that shook the Ugandan capital of Kampala after the coup. Bands of drunken soldiers armed with Soviet-made Kalashnikov rifles, sometimes replaced by gangs of thugs brandishing long knives, roamed through...
...already discovered; if the Beatles are a good band, which none would deny, why should a band that writes songs a great deal like the Beatles be discounted? In the prologue to his “Aetia,” the Hellenistic poet Callimachus recounted how the god Apollo came to him when he started off as a poet, and warned him against the paths that carts had engraved in the earth. Nothing’s changed in the two thousand plus years since Callimachus wrote this: the artist that refuses to test boundaries is the artist whose relevance...
...unlikely a home for humans as it is for diminutive green men. To a surprising number of prominent scientists and politicians, however, it is the next frontier, a new world to be tamed and colonized. Gathering in Washington last week for a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the Apollo-Soyuz space linkup were such luminaries as Astronomer Carl Sagan, former Moonwalker and U.S. Senator Harrison Schmitt, Astronaut Sally Ride, Hawaii Senator Spark Matsunaga and NASA Chief James Beggs. They proposed an agenda for the future as well: a joint U.S.-Soviet manned mission to Mars, which could be launched...
Gradually but inexorably, the momentum kept building. Earlier this month the government of violence-racked Uganda (estimated pop. 14.5 million) was denounced yet again by Amnesty International for torturing its political opponents. Two weeks later fighting broke out between soldiers belonging to President Apollo Milton Obote's Lango tribe and those from the Acholi clan, prompting Obote to tell a group of senior military men that they were welcome to try to wrest power from him if they coveted his "hot seat...
Favorite Work of Art: Daphne and Apollo, Gian Lorenzo Bernini