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After a decisive five-day military blitz, the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (M.P.L.A.) last week triumphantly announced that it had won the seven-month-old Angolan civil war. In a Luanda interview with the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug, President Agostinho Neto held out an olive branch to former members of the two Western-backed opposition forces, the National Union for the Total Liberation of Angola (UNITA) and the National Front for the Liberation of Angola (F.N.L.A.). They would have "no problem" under his government, he insisted. But he offered virtually no hope for a conciliatory...
...Blitz Alert. Some 50,000 to 100,000 Americans are now on lithium, and Fieve thinks "millions more" could benefit from it. Critics complain that the drug is already reaching patients who are not manic-depressives. Fieve thinks wider use is bound to come. His own four-year study reports lithium is "clearly effective" for severe recurrent depression. The drug is now being tested for everything from schizophrenia to alcoholism and aggressive behavior. The drug is nonaddictive but must be carefully monitored, and blood levels should be checked frequently; an overdose can bring on coma or death. Cautions Dr. Ralph...
Though Maude's doctored scripts may not promote lithium use, Dr. Guttentag thinks that the two shows may promote better mental health. She alerted all the more than 200 CBS affiliates to be ready for a post-Maude blitz of phone calls. Thirty-five affiliates agreed to run public service spots telling viewers where they can get help. Most of the rest of the stations stood ready to refer troubled callers to state or local mental health centers. More dubious is Dr. Fieve, who wishes that the subject had been treated on a better program...
...saying just what kind of system it will market. Whatever it is, Polaroid President William J. McCune Jr., 60, who has taken over the company's day-to-day operations from Founder Land, says that Polaroid has been "planning for it." A $4 million Pronto advertising blitz is in preparation. Already an improved SX-70 film is in the works, and analysts have no doubt that an even cheaper Pronto will soon follow the first...
...billboards have been put up in some areas of France and neighboring Belgium that show two glasses raised in a toast and proclaim: CHAMPAGNE-NOTHING REPLACES IT. So far, the producers have resisted the urge to extend the champagne campaign to other countries, however, and even the limited publicity blitz has stirred discomfort in the industry. "It's not the thing to do," says one venerable champagne maker. "Champagne is a luxury product that must maintain its dignity...