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...Gallipoli does not resemble an all-consuming vortex. Instead, war, specifically Winston Churchill's ill-fated Gallipoli campaign into Ottoman Turkey, waits patiently at the end of the film. For Gallipoli concerns getting to the front and the adventures en route as much as the conflict on the 60-mile-long Turkish peninsula...
...action is by turns desultory or desperate, but the almost forgotten war between Iran and Iraq that grinds on implacably along a 625-mile front began its second year last week, causing at least 50 casualties a day on each side. In all, more than 10,000 Iranians and roughly the same number of Iraqis have died since the Iraqis attacked on Sept. 22, 1980. Their aim: to seize the strategic Shatt al Arab estuary, a waterway long disputed by the two neighboring countries that runs into the Persian Gulf. The Iraqis failed in this objective and everyone has suffered...
...minutes ahead of schedule, the train purred into the station at Lyon. The 265-mile trip, ordinarily 3 hrs. 48 min., had taken 2 hrs. 30 min. By the end of October, 38 TGV trains will be in daily operation. In 1983, TGV track will extend to Marseille, a 4 hr. 50 min. ride that will trim two hours off the present schedule. Eventually Le Train will run west to Rennes and Nantes and perhaps one day north to Brussels and London, if a channel tunnel is built...
BEGINNING INNOCENTLY, like most White Mountain trails, it tramps over springy forest bottom for half a mile. Then, of course, it turns up. For an hour it climbs through woods, at first with just enough grade for some huffing and puffing, but soon roots across the path become ladders, and branches by the side turn into railings...
...there's plenty of climb left, for these ridges tend to bump along, one false summit after another. Oh, another couple of hundred yards, oh, another 40 yards, oh (giggle), another quarter-mile. The real top is obvious; there are lots of people up there eating lunch. The wind picks up a little, cooling the sweat on our backs, and we add a layer or two. And when we get up there, we are pretty quiet, part tired, and part too busy with all the looking around in awe that occupies one on the tops of mountains. Mt. Jefferson, perched...