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...would go back tomorrow if I could," he says with a wistful smile. "I never will adjust myself to living out of Africa. Every time I have left it has been a temporary sojourn." But then he laughs, and nods toward the large, base-relief map of Africa above his desk, and adds, "In some ways, I never really leave...
...canal during the 1967 and 1973 wars and the 1969-70 "war of attrition." Commanding the operation is U.S. Rear Admiral Brian McCauley, 52, who directed the American minesweeping of Haiphong harbor. He explained that helicopters will sweep for magnetic, acoustic and pressure mines and also "fashion a map of the canal's bed to show us where all the junk is. During the second stage, called 'Nimbus Moon,' the map will guide the Egyptian and British divers who will defuse or explode all that stuff." No Americans will take part in the actual defusing of explosives...
...mostly of surface ships armed with outmoded artillery. Our military arranged for members of the leadership to inspect the Black Sea Fleet. I attended staff maneuvers on board a cruiser. One of our commanders gave a report on how "our" fleet had met and routed "the enemy" in the map exercises. He started rattling off how "our" fleet was sinking "enemy" ships right and left. He was terribly cocky. It made me sad to listen to him. Finally, I couldn't restrain myself any longer. I interrupted him and said: "Stop! Wait! You keep talking with such certainty about...
From a bantering tone, Malraux turned skeptical on the subject of the hour-Europe. "It does not exist," he said, "and never has. It is the last of the great myths. Europe is a pink spot on the map. [In the Middle Ages it was] decided that there was a Europe because there was Christianity. Christianity was serious. Europe is a dream -for Europeans but also for others. I would like to know just how serious the American dream of Europe was. Did the leaders of America really ever believe in it?" The notion of a European Parliament was barely...
...West Germany that has quite a few positions available, offering not only security, fringe benefits, promotion and good pay, but also foreign travel and exciting assignments. According to an eight-page brochure available at government employment offices, men and women are needed in more than 40 professions-from map makers and pharmacologists to computer programmers and historians. The eyebrow-raiser is the address to which prospective applicants should write: the headquarters of the Bundesnachrichtendienst, or Federal Intelligence Service, Bonn's equivalent of the CIA. What that agency wants to hire is spies...