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...military assessment in Whitehall is that Smith has nine to twelve months at most before his regime is overwhelmed by a combined guerrilla war from surrounding African countries and a siege economy at home. "It's no longer the eleventh hour for Rhodesia but the 59th minute before Armageddon," said a British official in London. This view is based on the assumption that South Africa will not enter the war in force on the Rhodesian side, since such a move might trigger an Angola-scale Cuban intervention. At the moment, the British are resigned to the Cubans participating...
Waiting for Armageddon is, in a curious way, one of the morbidly titillating preoccupations of our time. Novelist Walker Percy has written of "the old authentic thrill of the Bomb and ... the heart's desire of the alienated man to see vines sprouting through the masonry." Since the days of the bomb-shelter boom in the early '60s, nuclear holocaust has receded a bit in the apocalyptic imagination, replaced now by visions of economic collapse-industry's furnaces grown cold, fleets of cars broken down, and frenzied looters rampaging in the street...
...their theory of existence or some such thing. Just look around and you'll find them--perhaps in the course of an active summer you'll get to meet all the great ones, Clampman I and Clampman II, the Sheik, the Vanishing Desperado, the Sun Myung Moon people, Ms. Armageddon, and all the rest...
...safety of the A.P. newsmen and joined them in a round of Cokes and leftover cakes. Wrote Peter Arnett that night: "I never dreamed it would end the way it did at noon today. I thought it might have ended with a political deal like in Laos. Even an Armageddon-type battle to the finish with the city left in ruins like in World War II in Europe...
...comes our way. Changes in taste seem to adumbrate changes in reality, and when "that Depression look" came back it brought with it a new depression. Stavisky is a movie for people who are sincerely worried about how to spend the time that remains between tomorrow morning and Armageddon; not for those, like the circle of young men and women who gather around Trotsky, who take life seriously and don't have to worry about boredom...