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...workers from the screens of a London power station. Presumably, it had migrated up the river to spawn in the now pristine waters. The prize was solemnly taken to the Natural History Museum, which declared it a genuine dead salmon, and scientists from the Ministry of Agriculture dutifully lent their own support to the finding. The discovery of the salmon?and its encouraging implications for the Thames?was announced recently at a huge press conference...
Before returning to Washington, Kissinger had planned to fly from Israel to Turkey to discuss a proposed compromise plan on the Cyprus impasse with Premier Bülent Ecevit. At the last minute, the Ankara trip had to be canceled. Unable to form a new coalition government because of disagreements over Cyprus, Ecevit announced that he could not hold "serious" talks with the Secretary of State...
...committees in more than just strength: It encompassed a far wider segment of the American populace than those groups who agreed politically with Davis. Despite President Nixon's assessment that she was one of the country's most dangerous criminals, liberal politicians, establishment professors and previously apolitical pop stars lent their names to Free Angela Davis Committees and fund-raising events. Those who turned out or wrote letters and signed petitions to support Davis cut across class barriers and encompassed a wide spectrum of political groups. These included impressive numbers from various minority groups and white working and middle class...
Last year's bestselling Burr is an excel lent example of the author's skill at packaging a bit of class in a good deal of excelsior. For Myron, he tricks out his peeves and hostilities with the malicious energy that has made him the best-if not the most original-of our hard-core satirists. Myra/Myron is the perfect mate for Vidal's cold-blooded gifts. If the caricatures, derision and raillery sometimes outpace the action-or the point -it is because even Vidal is not immune to the satirist's most common affliction...
...regarding them as stopgap measures. They can do no more than delay the day when the oil importers face the reality that they can no longer afford to pay the cartel's price. After all, the money that OPEC channels into a recycling facility is not donated; it is lent and must be repaid?with interest...