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Left Turn, one of the few political revues in the area, is performed by the Caravan Theater every Tuesday at 8:30. This troupe, which combines music and poetry with their skits, is always insightful and clever. An evening of relaxed and enjoyable entertainment...
...caravan arrived with thunder and a blast of hot air from the helicopter rotors and the speeches on the south lawn of the White House. Almost as if Nixon's arrival were a signal, the high-energy politicians began to shoot off and collide with each other. The presidential propaganda office cranked out in awed gasps stories of the millions of joyful Arabs who had shouted praises for Nixon. Press Secretary Ron Ziegler talked in super-superlatives of new eras, of more and better chances for peace. There were box scores of miles traveled (14,775), records broken (first...
Covering a string of one-night stands is nothing new for Fischer. "It's like a presidential election campaign transplanted to an exotic clime," he says, recalling his days aboard George McGovern's rattling bus-train-airplane caravan two years ago. "But in this case, the fatigue is compounded by the difference in time zones between the U.S. and the Middle East." Fischer had expected to recover from transatlantic jet lag during the President's stopover in Salzburg, Austria, but it was in Salzburg that Secretary of State Kissinger threatened to resign, and sent the press corps...
...agreement that it had produced. Egypt was getting material aid and a valuable psychological prop. The U.S. had gained new and close ties with the leading state in the Arab world-an advance of great strategic significance if it can be sustained. In well-earned triumph, the Nixon caravan departed for its next stop -Saudi Arabia. A sign at the Cairo airport read: SEE YOU LATER, DICK...
...common. The shoulders of the main road between the mining zone and Bogota are dotted with crosses that mark the graves of those who lost their lives and their booty to pistol-packing esmeralderos. Last year, for example, a gang called La Pesada (the Heavy Mob) held up a caravan of smugglers working for El Ganso (the Goose), took their emeralds, and machine-gunned five of them to death...