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...week the nation fixed its agonized attention on Qa Khanna, the stretch of Jordanian desert where three hijacked airliners rested improbably, like a mirage of beached whales. The piracies represented an oddly terrifying juxtaposition of technology and barbarism, an almost science-fiction quality of civilization in a retrograde time machine, stranded abruptly in a desert waste. A handful of fanatics, equipped with nothing more complex than guns, dynamite and airline schedules, rendered some of the most advanced nations impotent to protect several hundred of their citizens (see THE WORLD). In one violent drama, the guerrillas frustrated the most sophisticated diplomacy...
...ALIVE AND WELL AT THE WHISKEY (Universal City). The doughty South African expatriate trumpeter mixes jazz and rock with a generous quotient of his native folk music. Vistas of the veld spill out of his trumpet in Mra and from his scratchy singing voice in Ha Lese Le Di Khanna, a cattle-herding song. Little Miss Sweetness leans on the rock side. The most infectious track is Up Up and Away, which Masekela rescues from the TWA commercial and instills with a zestful buoyancy...
...going to be overawed," insisted Raj Kumar Khanna, India's nonplaying captain, as the match got under way in Melbourne's Kooyong Stadium. "The whole world lives on hope...
Prem, a teacher at Mr. Khanna's Private College, finds settling down a most delicate matter. His family, he complains to a colleague, "have married me to a girl. She doesn't cook. She is not house-proud." As brightly played by Shashi Kapoor, Prem faces life with all the artless perplexity of a man who has just seen his hat run over by a streetcar. His wife Indu (doe-eyed Leela Naidu) is disrespectful-when he criticizes her, she talks back. "They come like lambs and before long they are tigers at your throat," a friend explains...
Instead, Prem's problems multiply. Soon to become a father, he tries to ask Mr. Khanna for a raise, but fumbles it. His landlord declines a rent reduction. He is frustrated in his friendship with an eccentric young American who has come to India to find spiritual enrichment. "You grow souls," says the American. To which Prem replies: "Our steel output is also increasing." Meanwhile, his mother's nagging drives Indu back to her own family...