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Silver Platter. In critical areas, the Communists now have the initiative-or at least have deprived the allies of it. Communist soldiers are, moreover, fighting with new and sophisticated weaponry: rapid-firing Communist-made AK-47 assault rifles, Soviet-supplied hand grenades, machine guns and amphibious tanks, and a family of devastatingly effective mortars and rockets (see THE WORLD...
...Wishes. Formed by the 1960 union of British and Italian Somaliland, Somalia is populated by blacks of the Moslem faith who are largely illiterate nomads. While some Somalis in the north speak English, many southerners rattle off Italian with ease-and are only slightly less adept at the appropriate hand gestures. Italian influence also remains in the crumbling old arches and seaside villas, the pasta and Italian wines served in restaurants and the 1934 Fiat trucks that disgorge angry clouds of billowy, greasy smoke in the streets of the capital of Mogadishu...
Coke on Wax. By 1956, Jeffrey had created enough of a repertory to launch seven of his dancers on a tour of one-night stands in 23 Southern towns. They traveled like gypsies in a borrowed station wagon and a rented trailer crammed with hand-me-down costumes from Balanchine and discarded scenery from the Metropolitan Opera. They danced in movie theaters, veterans' halls and gymnasiums; music was provided by a borrowed tape recorder or one of the dancers who dashed to a piano between his numbers. To ensure their footing, they often had to sprinkle a tacky coating...
...clear that there are limits to what American power can do in Vietnam; on the other hand, there are no limits to what American power can do to Vietnam. Unleashing on a small country the most destructive firepower ever known to mankind, the United States has brought our nation to the brink of annihilation. The words of the American commander, that "To save Bentre it has become necessary to destroy it," plainly reflect the moral, political and military bankruptcy of American policy in Vietnam. Both self-interest and moral responsibility, then, make it imperative that the people and government...
...often happens, the key to a compromise may lie with the Soviets, whose position is not yet totally clear. Moscow has a few choices. By joining the boycott, the Kremlin would improve relations with black Africa, gaining ground on Communist China, which can't compete anyway. On the other hand, Moscow could use its influence to torpedo the boycott, hoping to gain more from the prestige of Olympic victories than from the benefits of the boycott. As a third possibility, and not completely out of character, the Soviets could strike a compromise by continuing their denunciation of the South Africans...