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None of the stories I have read about arms control affected me as did yours with its picture of the Kremlin façade. The Soviet hammer and sickle are a familiar sight, but I have never seen the emblem superimposed on the globe. That symbol evoked all the long-forgotten cold war fanaticism about Soviet world domination...
...D.T.A. members were resigning from Namibia's 50-seat National Assembly, leaving control in the hands of. a South African administrator-general. The reason offered for the D.T.A. defection was, as critics of South Africa have maintained all along, that the local government was no more than a façade for decisions actually taken in Pretoria, South Africa's capital...
...arts palace on Rome's Diocletian Baths and the triumphal Arch of Constantine. When it opened in 1907, luxuriously appointed with mahogany, crystal, brass and marble, its 760-ft.-long, 45-ft.-high concourse was the largest room in the world under a single roof. Niches in the façade held carved avatars of fire, electricity, agriculture and mechanics, each weighing 25 tons...
...transfigurations here. The Ole Miss magazine, sponsored by the student newspaper, is devoting a special issue to the lessons of that catastrophe. There will be a ceremony under the auspices of the university not far from the Lyceum Building, where one may still see the bullet holes in the façades. It has been organized by Lucius Williams, a black vice chancellor. Awards will be presented to distinguished black graduates. Porter Fortune, the chancellor, a Chapel Hill man who since he came here in 1968 has worked toward making all students feel a part of Ole Miss, will give...
...cracks in the Soviets' façade of iron invincibility could hardly have come at a more inopportune time for them. The leadership situation is fuzzy. Their forces are still bogged down in Afghanistan even though they have increased their strength to 100,000 troops. Worries about unrest in Poland are rising again. All this adds up, in the minds of some U.S. analysts, to a belief that for the moment the Soviet Union is less inclined to take aggressive action in faraway places. Score one for Yankee ingenuity-something we had almost forgotten...