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...Halim Said Abu-Izzeddin. Explaining the conference's measures, UNESCO's new head, Amadou Mahtar M'Bow of Senegal, declared: "UNESCO is composed of almost the same member states as the U.N. It is natural that the problems which perturb the world today should find an echo there...
...tried to discourage such support throughout that period. There is still widespread sympathy for the cause, and open appeals for donations are sprinkled through Irish papers in the U.S. IT'S A SAD CHRISTMAS WHEN YOUR DADDY'S IN PRISON, reads an ad in the moderate Irish Echo for Eire Nua, (New Ireland), a Provisional front...
Died. André Géraud, 92, Cassandra-like French columnist known as Pertinax (Latin for resolute); in Ségur-le-Château, France. In his daily columns in Echo de Paris, Pertinax in the 1930s warned about the danger of appeasing Hitler. When Nazi panzers crushed France in 1940, he escaped via Bordeaux on an English destroyer. In the U.S. during the war, he wrote his best-known work, The Gravediggers of France, a historical exposé of the men responsible for his country's fall...
...ECHO OF A DISTANT DRUM: WINSLOW HOMER AND THE CIVIL...
...vision is brief, its echo swal lowed by Montana's vast emptiness. But it reveals that the hero's feigned indifference to life is a sham. He inwardly craves all the things to which he has tried to close his heart: love and loyalty, and a purpose that will root him to the land his forebears lost. Near the book's end, he tries to rescue a cow that is in danger of drowning in mud. The task is mock-heroic, emblematic of the best he can expect from existence. But he struggles furiously, engaged...