Word: lukases
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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J. Anthony Lukas '55, a well-known journalist and author, told a group of freshman last night that his experience as a foreign correspondent in Zaire during the 1960s convinced him that the U.S. should not intervene in the current fighting there.
Lukas said the U.S. should not unequivocally support the currently ruling regime of Mobutu Sese Seko, calling the idea that Mobutu is essential to U.S. national security a "myth."
"This is a laughable little war, but one getting a disproportionate amount of attention," Lukas said. Nevertheless, he added that the U.S. should "watch" events in Zaire because its strategic and economic importance could cause it to become a center of international conflict.
...first full-scale biography of him in English in a decade. The book, by Freelance Writers (and sisters) Mary and Ellen Lukas, is not the full-dress exposition of Teilhard's thought that English Actor-Author Robert Speaight achieved in his 1967 Life of Teilhard de Chardin. The Lukases' reportage tells of the man behind the legend, providing much new material culled from ten years of interviewing Teilhard's friends and acquaintances...
FOR 15 YEARS now Wolfe has scampered up the trellis of his style. Up, up he went, up the face of one of those Riverside Drive apartments he pretends to despise so much. Peering in through the picture window he discovered, in a perverse parallel to Orwell's Animal Farm...