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This farcical circle of palace revolts is interrupted by the reverberations of a European cataclysm: The Great War. While a massacre by the Head of State provokes brief, tongue-clucking scandal in the French press, the tales of Hun atrocities shock Latin Americans who believed, above all, in the civilization of Europe. And the ideology that fills the moral vacuum left by the collapse of the old cultural value is Marxism...
...this week's pivotal Pennsylvania primary, Mayor Frank Rizzo was hoping to play kingmaker for his friend Senator Henry Jackson. But the burly Rizzo -who vowed during his own campaign last year that "I will make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" and won re-election with 57% of the vote-has got himself into deep political trouble. A former cop and police commissioner from South Philly's tough "Little Italy" district, Rizzo, 55, is accused of failing to uphold law-and-order in the city. Having campaigned on the slogan "He held taxes down...
Rabin has one advantage going for hun that none of his predecessors shared: he is a Sabra, a native-born Israeli. When he accepted the candidacy of his party last May, he declared: "The sons of the founding generation have come of age." Since that time, the Israeli public at large has come to appreciate his Sabra bluntness. In a debate on possible territorial compromises, Rabin said, "Even if we do not achieve peace, the people must be convinced that their leadership has sought every possible way to advance toward peace, has sought every possible way to prevent...
...Gary Hart who managed George McGovern's presidential campaign. Now that he is campaigning for office on his own, Hart, 36, has cautiously muted some of the more far-out positions that lost the election for Mc-Govern. "He's trying to be right of Attila the Hun," says the outraged, outmaneuvered conservative incumbent. Peter Dominick, 59, has tried to make an issue of the fact that Hart has only lived in Colorado for a short time. Dominick has made some costly gaffes A few days after Nixon resigned, he dismissed Watergate as "insignificant." In a jaundiced discussion...
...hold hun to his own standard is to tell the negative half of the story. Connell's style is a model of economy; it reveals the care of an artisan whose works should be collected. -PauI Gray