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It had none of the lightning-flash finesse of Entebbe, none of the bloody ferocity of Mayaguez. Yet once again, however fleetingly, the frustration of dealing with the irrational acts of militants had been lifted by a single daring and dramatic deed. The cunning maneuver executed by Canadian diplomats in...
At Davos, the Heidens drew knowing and admiring crowds. With good reason: in the long history of their sport, only Eric has been deemed capable of winning the gold in all five men's events, ranging from the lightning-fast 500-meter sprint, through the middle distances of 1,000...
That may be, at least in the short run, a critical deficiency in Carter's policy. The U.S. at present does not have the military forces to repel any Soviet invasion of the Persian Gulf area. The U.S. now has 21 warships, including two aircraft carriers, in the Indian Ocean...
And so it seemed. A week earlier, in a lightning invasion, four Soviet divisions moved into Afghanistan, the iron fist behind a coup that ended the three-month-old regime of President Hafizullah Amin. The unfortunate Amin, 50, who had turned out to be a more independent-minded nationalist than...
Mozart: Don Giovanni (Baritone Bernd Weikl and Bass-Baritone Gabriel Bacquier, Sopranos Margaret Price and Sylvia Sass, London Opera Chorus, London Philharmonic, Sir Georg Solti conductor, London; 4 LPs). "Summer lightning made audible" was Shaw's metaphor for this miraculous score, and it serves well to describe Solti'...