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...desert in broken-down trucks and cars. Then, beginning five months ago, a massive air-and sea-lift returned them to their native country (TIME, Sept. 22). By last week 300,000 of them had arrived in Portugal -os retornados (the returned), the refugees who are the bitter harvest of Angola's civil...
...full of material so disgusting that it will make any decent, clean, healthy person want to throw up," he declares. Why then did he spend 41 years collecting and writing the text that accompanies these Augean sweepings of the human psyche? Legman tells us that he began his harvest as a teen-ager in Scranton, Pa., where he was born in 1918. "I got myself in the habit," he recalls, "to top my own father, a notable teller of tales." The psychoanalytically inclined may draw their own conclusions. But it is fairly clear that Legman enjoys a magnificent case...
Once the agreement was signed, President Ford lifted the two-month moratorium on new sales to the Soviets from this year's crop; he had imposed it at about the time longshoremen began refusing to load ships with wheat bound for Russia. The Soviets, who face a disastrous harvest, as much as 56 million tons below the planners' target of 215 million tons, are now free to buy from this year's record U.S. crop. The U.S.S.R. had signed contracts to buy 10 million tons before the embargo; it probably will buy about 7 million tons more...
What happens next? One view is that having proved her leadership with the emergency and having reaped the political benefits of a bumper grain harvest, Mrs. Gandhi will be in a strong position next spring to end the emergency and hold elections. Another view holds that since she already has a two-thirds majority in Parliament, there would be no need for her to risk a campaign and all its attendant criticism from opposition leaders and an unshackled press. There are signs of a drift toward a cult of personality. The back of one bus bears the florid declaration COURAGE...
...Japanese identity is by no means dead among the A.J.A.s. Many sansei, including Governor Ariyoshi's daughter Lynn, go to study in Japan. Traditional family New Year's fetes and a summertime harvest celebration called O ban are alive and well, even among the young. Numerous picnics held by members of various kens (groups of families tracing their lineage to specific prefectures in Japan) are common in Honolulu's Ala Moana park...