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About half of the former Angolans have gone to the impoverished north of Portugal, where many came from, looking for work and help from relatives. Every day the local papers are filled with lists of people seeking long-lost relations. About 250 have been put into Lisbon's Ritz Hotel for lack of space elsewhere. The rest of the refugees are living in wretched shantytown camps, in hospitals or schools. The government pays for this through a new agency, established to help the newcomers, with a budget of $160 million. Hundreds are squatters at Lisbon International Airport...
...that reason, the morning Chronicle, with which the Examiner shares printing facilities, also trod softly at first, sitting for days on an exclusive by Reporter Tim Findley identifying the S.L.A. leaders by name. Findley later quit in disgust. Other energetic Examiner newcomers, hired in a drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME, Feb. 10), have also decried that timidity. As Murray Olderman, who covered the case for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, put it: "Would the San Francisco papers have reacted in the same spirit of cooperation if a Bolivian tin heiress had been kidnaped instead...
...presidential hopefuls were jittering around Boston City Hall, making nice to the caucus delegates and observers who had laid out fifteen dollars to drink a little wine and listen to the candidates make their bids. Fred Harris, a Democrat from Oklahoma, stood in a corner greeting strangers like long-lost friends...
...little after 1 o'clock on Dec. 13, 1948, a 22-year-old American file clerk from the U.S. embassy in Moscow named Alexander Dolgun strolled down Gorky Street on his way to lunch. Suddenly a tall, good-looking stranger hailed him like a long-lost friend. Alex's purported kiryukha (old buddy) was a major in the MGB, the Ministry of State Security, who promptly took him to jail. What began as a delayed luncheon lasted seven years and eight months. For the first 18 months the MGB tried unsuccessfully to force their prisoner to confess that...
CELEBRATION is also intended as a political novel. Its hero, a 90-year-old radical educator named Samuel Lumen can't decide whether to let the president of the United States name a new children's center after him or to join his long-lost grandson in a People's Bicentennial-style group called the Children of Liberty. But it is not a good political novel. Lumen is a sympathetic enough figure but it's hard to take either him or his dilemma too seriously. After 348 pages of diary writing he concludes that "it's far too late...