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Across the midsection of Africa, at roughly the point where the savanna meets the tropical forest, a kind of human fault line separates the Arab world from Black Africa, This zone of instability, from Chad to the Horn, is a battleground where Arab guerrillas are pitted against black governments, and African rebels against Arab regimes. In a sense, two of the stubbornest rebellions-the civil war in the southern Sudan and the Eritrean uprising in northern Ethiopia-are extensions of the Arab-Israeli conflict to the north. The situation in the Sudan has been further complicated by the Soviet Union...
Nonetheless, Numeiry's revolutionary regime is becoming more and more dependent on the military support of the Soviet Union, which has some 500 advisers in the Sudan. Farther down the Horn of Africa in Somalia (see map), there are an estimated 325 Russian advisers. Last year the Russians began to construct a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, an installation that will be useful, once the Suez Canal is reopened, in the further expansion of Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Now the Russians are installing SA-2 antiaircraft missiles to defend the base...
...home is Jack Crabb (Dustin Hoffman). He is 121 years old and the sole white survivor of the rout of Little Big Horn...
...them was Quarterback Norm Snead, who went to the Minnesota Vikings from the Philadelphia Eagles in exchange for a lineman and three choices. Also seeking help in the passing department, the Denver Broncos traded Defensive End Alden Roche and one choice to the Green Bay Packers for Quarterback Don Horn and one pick, while the Eagles swapped three choices to the Detroit Lions for Quarterback Greg Barton. But the biggest deal of all was pulled off by George Allen, late of the Los Angeles Rams and presently head coach of the Washington Redskins. In one swoop, he transferred a good...
...chapter of the record of that life for the "Desolation Angels," a chapter of snapshots and drugstore prints to go along with the volumes of words. There is a picture of Allen Ginsberg while he was still at Columbia, a spare, clean-cut, serious, youthful New York intellectual in horn-rimmed glasses. There are two pictures of Neal Cassady taken in 1946 just before he left New York for Denver after his first visit with Kerouac and Ginsberg; they're the same pictures that Kerouac describes in On the Road...