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...Boran cattle wear bells that thock and dong and clatter through the forest. The Masai and the cows are so intimately connected that each herdsman knows every cow individually (even, as now, when we are bringing along 140 head) and knows where each will be in the line of march. Moses says the same two white cows always lead the herd, and they do. And the same white cow always comes in last. Moses now and then quite tenderly browses with his hands over one of his animals and pulls off ticks, an act of love. Herding cows is infinitely...
...other war, they would have made movies about us too. Dateline: Hell!, Dispatch from Dong Ha, maybe even A Scrambler to the Front . . . But Viet Nam is awkward, everybody knows how awkward, and if people don't even want to hear about it, you know they're not going to pay money to sit there in the dark and have it brought up." So wrote Michael Herr in Dispatches, published in 1977, a year before the first spate of Viet Nam dramas. (The mid-'60s had offered a couple of World War II wheezes disguised as topical films: A Yank...
...event marked the most sweeping change in the Vietnamese Communist leadership since the party's founding in 1930. At the Sixth Party Congress in Hanoi last week, three longtime stalwarts resigned because of "advanced age and bad health": General Secretary Truong Chinh, 79, Premier Pham Van Dong, 80, and veteran Politburo Member Le Duc Tho, 76. They are among the last members of the generation of leaders that defeated the French and the Americans on the battlefield. But they failed to reap the benefits of peace, leaving behind a legacy of 800% inflation, widespread unemployment and chronic shortages...
...Gaddafi opened a plant at Brega, south of Benghazi, where some of the 73-ton pipeline sections will be made. Price Bros. of Dayton, a company that is prevented by U.S. restrictions from operating in Libya, provided most of the technology to build the plant. The main contractor, the Dong-Ah Construction Co. of South Korea, is bringing in 8,000 workers to make and lay the pipes. The project seems to be unaffected by Washington's ban on U.S. exports to Libya or by President Reagan's January Executive Order that forced hundreds of Americans to leave the country...
Even among Communist regimes, Viet Nam has long been known for the unchanging roll call of its top ranks. That reputation abruptly changed last week when Radio Hanoi announced that eight Cabinet ministers in the Pham Van Dong government, which has been in power since the unification of North and South Viet Nam in 1976, had been either fired or reassigned. It was the biggest government shake-up in Hanoi since the Communists came to power in North Viet...