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...University in Cairo in 1952. Egyptian authorities pronounced it subversive, and copies were hidden in girls' lockers at the university to avoid detection by police. Beseisso himself spent seven years in various Arab jails, including five years in an Egyptian desert prison that he describes as "outside the map of God, where it rains for five minutes once in 50 years." He asks, sardonically: "Will the Arabs ever be honest enough to talk about their concentration camps?" Beseisso edits the literary magazine Lotus in Beirut; his frequent travels abroad include visits to the Soviet Union...
...weather reporters on occasion fall into a sort of self-satire. After the usual "happy talk" clowning with his colleagues, one announcer lapses into a discussion of the "good guys" and the "bad guys," which are the high and low pressure systems. They are represented on the weather map by happy and sad faces, looking like the Greek masks of comedy and tragedy...
...updating on their own state primary. Their focus was not on a local luminary but on Walter Cronkite, who had come to the provinces and set up his majestic broadcast booth. His noble gray head appeared at the bottom of the screen, a gigantic red, white and blue map of the U.S. spread out behind him. Not since George C. Scott opened the movie Patton had such a dramatic entrance been filmed. There were quiet gasps among the appreciative Chicagoans...
Violence reached such an alarming level that Lord Soames, the British caretaker Governor, issued a map showing "red" and "blue" zones in which he adjudged that it was "impossible" or "difficult" for parties other than Mugabe's to campaign because of intimidation by his guerrilla forces (acronymically called ZANLA). At least 2,000 of Mugabe's men have refused to enter the 14 cease-fire assembly points set aside for guerrillas returning to Zimbabwe Rhodesia from camps in neighboring states...
...Sunday morning, pointing to a U.S. map with little black dots denoting likely Soviet targets-concentrated, of course, on the Northern Atlantic seaboard-the speaker seemed as confident about the prospect of a nuclear holocaust as other preachers are about the Second Coming. "Our government is arming and preparing for nuclear war," said Gene Lagque, retired rear admiral, adding that military men operate on the premise that war will come...