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After four days of debate that often lasted until dawn, the parliament of the world's newest, and 156th, sovereign state unanimously approved a constitution. The staid, protocol-conscious assembly in Surinam's capital of Paramaribo erupted in cheers. Outside, a crowd waiting for the vote roared its approval and set off celebratory firecrackers. As the parliamentarians stood to sing the national anthem, a Creole woman placed garlands of ribbons around the neck of Prime Minister Henck Arron and Opposition Leader Jaggernath Lachmon, head of the Hindustani Vatan Hitkarie (Progressive Reform) party. Close to tears, the two longtime...
...Dawn Thorogood Upland, Calif...
Brent Scowcroft, 50, used to snatch a few hours' sleep in Henry Kissinger's White House office during his frequent dusk-to-dawn stints keeping watch over international crises. Having been named to replace Kissinger as head of the National Security Council, Scowcroft will now be able to work there in the daytime too. A slightly built, balding scholar, Scowcroft may well be the ablest member of Ford's White House staff. Now an Air Force lieutenant general, he will resign his commission when he takes over his new job. He became Kissinger's NSC deputy...
...Dawn Patrol, Saturday...
There's more swashbuckling in The Dawn Patrol with Errol Flynn and David Niven, playing at Harkness Commons, but the action takes place in the skies over France, not on the streets of the City. Flynn and Niven maintain a collective stiff upper lip as they repeatedly tangle with the Boche. Plenty of dogfights...