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...wants Hermia to marry Demetrius. Hermia and Lysander decide to leave Athens and be married in the woods outside the city. Helena, a friend of Hermia, learns of her plans and tells Demetrius, knowing he will follow Hermia into the woods where Helena hopes to seduce him. The four flee restrictive-but-orderly Athens for the woods, where the fairies, ruled by Titania, and Puck, assistant to Oberon, gallivant with one another and trick the mortals with magic herbs...
After that, it is the Communists' turn. They are represented by a husband-wife team of rich dilettantes, whose aim is to turn the widow into a proletarian heroine. Their sheer companionship is helpful, especially since Frau Kusters' son and his pregnant wife flee to Finland to avoid the scandal, while her daughter uses all the sudden notoriety to try to further her tacky career as a cabaret artiste. But the party is not really interested in clearing the Kusters name, just in exploiting it as propaganda. Finally, Mother Kusters goes off with a building janitor, who offers...
...Defense Minister Lin Piao, who had been formally named Mao's successor, allegedly attempted to assassinate Mao and take supreme power for himself. When his plot failed, the official but as yet unverified account continues, he died in a plane crash over Mongolia while he was trying to flee to the Soviet Union. Chiang Ch'ing recounted the entire case in great detail during her interview, disclosing several new elements in the Lin-Mao struggle...
Bramlet desperately started trying to convert his assets into cash. Perhaps he intended to pay off the mobsters, or maybe just flee, since a contract had reportedly been put out on him. In either case, he will not be drawing his own pension from the fund...
...raid had hit it," TIME's Richard Gross cabled that relatively few buildings were actually flattened. "Most of those that were damaged had their roofs or top floors shaken loose. The rubble bombarded residents, who fled to the streets in panic. Motorists, not knowing where to flee, drove around in circles for hours in panic, creating horrendous traffic jams in a city where most people are too poor to afford cars. Yet U.S. embassy officials expressed surprise that the damage had been so light, considering the intensity of the quake...