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...leaders' agreement on the treaty, the Soviets promised to send home all non-Soviet divisions in Czechoslovakia and reduce the number of their own divisions within the next months. According to speculation in Prague, seven divisions, armored and motorized, will remain behind. They are equipped with Scud and Frog tactical missiles that can fire either conventional or nuclear warheads. The Soviet command is setting up headquarters at Milovice, 25 miles northeast of Prague, where Russian technicians have already installed a troposcatter communications system that gives Soviet Commander Ivan Pavlovsky instant and unjammable contact with other Warsaw Pact headquarters...
...PLAYHOUSE. "The Mayfly and the Frog." Sir John Gielgud stars in a fanciful story about a tender encounter be tween a middle-aged multimillionaire and a scruffy teen-age girl...
...Frog to a Phoenix. Visitors are caught up in a carnivalesque March of Progress from the moment they enter. At the door, they find that their bodies have been sighted by an electric eye, which in turn triggers the computer-generated voice that welcomes them in a deep monotone. They may be approached by R.O.S.A. (Radio Operated Simulated Actress) Bosom, a roving electronic robot who actually appeared with live performers in a 1966 London production of The Three Musketeers (R.O.S.A. played the Queen of France...
Unattached Eyeballs. Grandville's favorite creatures were frogs, which he used to symbolize children, clowns, or murder victims, and he kept a pet frog on his drawing table. Insects, too, fascinated him. With his thin spidery line, he created a whole metaphorical insectarium-emperor moths confer with dung beetles, frivolous lady bugs are escorted by loutish caterpillars, cricket barkers play to snails and turtles...
...press printed many pictures of the so-called rats sold in African markets for human consumption," he said. "I can tell you that the so-called rat is a real delicacy in our part of the world, and I'd rather eat your so-called rats than your damned frog's legs." Gowon, who has recently begun reading books about the American Civil War, seems resigned to his unfavorable image. As he told TIME Correspondent Friedel Ungeheuer in Lagos last week: "I know that world opinion thinks of me as a monster. But the war is not against the Ibos...