Word: coms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able to accept the status quo in the Middle East today. The Soviet leader com plained that the "situation is still fraught with danger . . . The danger is that while there is some degree of tension the aggressor [Israel] and its patrons;[the U.S.] may try again to avoid a radical solution. It is not accidental that 'ersatz' settlement plans were recently launched. This...
...matter how fine his equipment, no matter how limitless his patience, it is the angler who is cast most often as the poor fish. The odds, as always, still favor the quarry; yet to the true fisherman that very failure is a kind of triumph. His sport lacks the com pulsive pursuit of hunting, the dizzying zest of mountain climbing. But it grants something else: a philosophy - an acceptance and ultimately a grudging admiration for unyielding nature. It is that philosophy that lured such beleaguered politicians as Franklin Roosevelt, Hoover, Eisenhower and Kennedy. It is that philosophy that prompted Henry...
...roads running from the Demilitarized Zone in the North to within 100 miles of Saigon. It also has refurbished twelve former U.S. airfields and set up SA-2 missile sites around the former U.S. Marine airfield at Khe Sanh. Though Saigon's forces have acquitted themselves well in com bat in the past year, they have not been able to prevent the Communists from destroying bridges, blockading key arteries, attacking outposts and terrorizing local officials. Hanoi's forces have come close to cutting South Viet Nam in half at the Central Highlands, and have threatened the precious rice...
...energy or strong feeling. Surprisingly, so are Chaplin's assaults on witch hunting. His King be comes the protector of a precocious waif (played by Chaplin's son Michael) whose parents refuse to testify before a congressional committee. The King breaks up the deliberations of the com mittee with a fire hose that unfunnily goes out of control...
With the addition of "slapdash" and "ill-timed," that perfectly describes a new musical called More Than You De serve. Sponsored by Joseph Papp at his lower Manhattan dramatic -arts com plex, the Public Theater, it reflects his le gitimate dismay at the social and polit ical gangrene spread by the Viet Nam War. Unfortunately, it is difficult to transpose the My Lai massacre into a sick South Pacific. Nonetheless, if the hard-rock band does not split a play goer's skull, some of the farcically outrageous and libidinous goings-on may tickle his ribs...