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...Holy Grail. The British comedy group Monty Python has a sense of humor that shines on record and goes over well on television; unfortunately, a feature-length film can accommodate only so many ludicrous even offensive gags before the well runs dry. Seeing an insolent knight in armor whacked down to a limbless torso may amuse the warped souls among us, but this sweeping satire of the Middle Ages soon exhausts the range of laughable subjects that kicked around in King Arthur's day. Scenes occasionally crop up that deserve a hearty guffaw; too bad they...
...week's end the Israelis remained in southern Lebanon. Best estimates were that the Israeli forces consisted of a battalion of infantry, supported by artillery and armor. They were also protected by heavy air cover and a flotilla of patrol boats off the Lebanese ports of Tyre and Sidon to cut off supplies for the Palestinians. Under protection of Israeli artillery, Defense Minister Ezer Weizman even toured the area in an unmarked automobile, accompanied by Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur and Major General Yanush Ben-Gal, commander of Israel's northern sector...
...which gained independence from France only two months ago. An irony of the current fighting in the Ogaden is that the Somalis are equipped with Soviet-made T-54 tanks and the Ethiopians with American-made M-60 tanks-yet the superpowers, in the years since they provided the armor, have changed sides. Actually, the Russians are still supplying a trickle of aid to the Somalis, yet the alienation seems to be all but complete. A high-ranking Somali official told a Western journalist last week: "I am getting tired of all those press stories saying we are a Soviet...
...then, the grand finale: a triumphal procession across the campus, with togas ($20 or less) fashioned from pastel bed sheets. The Florida contingent was led by an aspiring-and perspiring -Ulysses, clad in bright gold-fabric armor. Would-be Legionnaires-all male -captained chariots crafted from barrels and aluminum sheeting, drawn by teams of giggling girls. Chauvinistic? Perhaps, but the girls didn't mind. Nor did they balk at a slave auction, in which the prettiest sold for up to $50 in aid of a book fund. Successful bidders got a coed for the day to rub their backs...
Along the Sallum escarpment, a narrow, sandy ridge between sea and impassable salt flats where British and German armor fought several World War II battles, tanks and planes rumbled once more. In one battle, claimed Cairo, Egyptian troops knocked out 40 Libyan tanks and disabled 30 other vehicles at the cost of one truck and one wounded soldier. Next day bomb-laden Egyptian jets swept across Libya, inflicting heavy damage on an airbase at El Adem, near Tobruk...