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...increasing severity. Two weeks ago, his government arrested and jailed the organizers of a small dissident group that had been formed less than a month before to fight the introduction of a one-party system. More than 100 other opposition leaders, including Kaunda's former Vice President (and boyhood friend), Simon Kapwepwe, were detained without trial this year. Many were subsequently released, but not Kapwepwe. So far, the government has not interfered directly with the largest opposition group, the African National Congress, which holds 21 seats in the National Assembly. But the A.N.C.'s veteran leader, Harry Nkumbula...
Depressed. On his birthday McGovern had a party at Sylvan Lake Lodge, dining on barbecued buffalo with staff members and old friends from his boyhood home of Mitchell, S. Dak. Mitchell High School's summer baking class prepared an enormous birthday cake in the shape of the White House. Bob Verschoor, McGovern's finance chairman for each of his congressional campaigns, presented the candidate with 50 $50 bills-his harvest from a $50 bet he placed with Las Vegas Odds-maker Jimmy the Greek when the odds against McGovern's getting the Democratic nomination were reckoned...
...characters are members of the Japanese upper class and their retainers; most of the novel's events take place in 1912. The hero is a handsome, dreamy youth named Kiyoaki Matsugae, who belongs to a rich samurai family but has spent his boyhood in the household of some splendidly effete aristocrats named Ayakura. There he acquired "elegance" and the desire to live for emotion alone, "like a pennant, dependent on each gusting wind...
MUCH AS the novelist bears the burden of his hero's story, his hero bears the saints' burden with the language of visions. All are gently recounted, from Pedro's boyhood dream that he has the power to bring frightened souls back into the body to his adolescent dreams which confuse the events of his own life with those of Christ and the saints, to the dreams that fill him with enough strength to lead the insurrection. For though political and social historians may begin to explain a revolutionary as a political and social actor, only a novelist...
...early part of Malcolm's life-his boyhood in Lansing, Mich., his youth in Harlem pushing and pimping, his seven years in prison-is told in excellent, highly evocative stock footage, accompanied by passages from Malcolm's autobiography quietly and effectively read by James Earl Jones...