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...payments on the debt seven weeks ago after many banks, fearful that racial violence would destroy the economy, cut off credit. Sources close to the meetings said their object was to find a way to restore South Africa's credit lines so it can renew normal international commerce and begin debt repayment. South African officials, the sources said, are well aware that the debt problem cannot be resolved without movement toward political reform...
...public spending, the plan was designed to ease the country's roughly $6 billion budget deficit, its $3 billion balance of payments deficit and its $14 billion foreign debt. Despite the resulting labor confrontation, the government refuses to give way. Since the real impact of the austerity will not begin to be felt for months, Papandreou will probably win this round. Last week he was taking no chances. Diverting attention from domestic troubles, he charged that U.S. jets from the Sixth Fleet had violated Greek airspace. SOLOMON ISLANDS They Had the Wings of an Angel...
...play dumb with him. To give the President a number, he recalls, "would have been the first step down an endless path" toward ever more detailed and irrelevant questions. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was calling Linowitz by his first name five minutes after they had met; Israel's Menachem Begin later informed him that Sadat did that with everybody. "He calls me 'Menachem,' " said Begin stiffly, "and I call him, 'Mr. President...
Like Historian Raul Hilberg, who bears eloquent witness in Shoah, Lanzmann did not begin his mammoth project by "asking the big questions." Instead he amassed thousands of details--the exact size of the gas chambers, the regimen of the SS killer-bureaucrats--and arranged them in a vast mosaic that exposes but does not explain the mystery of extermination. Many of the details are riveting. Former SS Officer Franz Suchomel (whom Lanzmann filmed with a camera concealed in his shoulder bag) sings the Treblinka marching song--"No Jew knows that today"--and describes a pit that consumed discarded bodies: "There...
...have helped herself to widowhood with an ax some years ago and then dropped her defunct husband down a well. That possibility thrusts itself on her daughter Sybill, a middle-aged spinster who sees a hypnotist to have her subconscious unclogged. Her mother inconveniently expires before Sybill can begin an inquiry. To her siblings, that is just as well. They, and the cousins and in-laws who gather for the funeral, regard talk of ancient murder as tiresome and hysterical. This is an unfocused bunch, and they are not in the mood for Faulknerian horror...