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Currently, at least some 30,000 young Frenchmen are happily taking advantage of draft exemptions offered to anyone who volunteers to teach French in the hundreds of lycées and other schools spotted from the Ivory Coast to Indochina...
...think that Mexico is teetering on the edge of revolution-and some like to compare the current atmosphere here to that preceding the Mexican Revolution in 1910-must suffer from the wildest delusions. If anything Mexico today is comparable to the United States before the First World War. Ripp'es from the counter culture barely touch the shore. Most Mexican students seem most interested-and not unsurprisingly-in getting themselves into a lucrative profession. The ones involved in the arts hope to find financially rewarding ways to use their abilities. A talented young photographer, rather than wanting to do free...
...Monteux recalled that when he first heard the composer run through it on the piano, bobbing up and down to accentuate its jagged rhythms, "I was convinced that he was raving mad." Later, when the work had its Paris première at the Theatre des Champs Elysées, many members of the audience thought so too. They erupted in perhaps the most notorious riot of music history, booing, fighting one another, pelting Monteux and the players with programs and hats...
Obote, en route home from the Commonwealth Prime Ministers Conference, took refuge in Dar es Salaam, capital of neighboring Tanzania. His host, President Julius Nyerere, denounced the coup as "an act of treason to the whole course of African progress." It may also have an adverse effect on the East African Community, a common market that Uganda shares with Tanzania and Kenya. Obote accused Amin of corruption and chicanery, blamed the takeover on the Israelis (who help train Uganda's armed forces) and vowed that he would go home as President. It was far more likely, however, that...
Ladies of the Day. The Communists do not seem to be interested in taking Phnom-Penh; there are no enemy troops at the gates. Rather, they seem intent on using as few troops as possible to pin down as much of Cambodia's FANK (for Forces Armées Nationales Khmères) as possible. Only one-fourth of the 40,000 Communist troops in Cambodia are toying with the capital's supply routes; the rest are trying to carve out staging areas in northeast Cambodia and reconstruct supply routes into South Viet...