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Predictably, the carnival atmosphere diminished somewhat. The Army set up a crude tent hospital, and a prison doctor announced that all prescriptions for drugs, including methadone, would be filled. One fellow screamed in mock withdrawal pain: "Give me cannabis, give me cannabis, I can't live without it!" Some women wandered into the tent asking for birth control pills (the medics had none...
...Egypt's President, Anwar Sadat, 52, after seven months in power, is no longer the butt of scornful jokes. He is no longer referred to as a "caretaker," soon to be supplanted by a more powerful leader. Dispossessed aristocrats no longer mock him, and politicians are discovering unexpected talents. Like some Nileside Harry Truman, Sadat is running the most populous and most important Arab nation with far greater authority and efficiency than anyone had anticipated...
...would mean if he were so guarded, he would be anxious to have unguarded moments where he could carry on his private affairs-literally & figuratively." The letter suggests that the plan was to hold Kissinger for about a week, perhaps kidnap some other "bigwigs of liberal ilk," stage a mock political trial, film it-and then release everyone and deliver the film to the television stations. "The impact of such a thing would be phenomenal," the letter says...
Almost every region of the world can qualify today as either a target of terrorists or a training ground. Even the tranquil fields of The Netherlands have served as a mock battlefield for a group of Indonesian separatists seeking independence for the South Moluccas Islands; Basque nationalists train secretly in northern Spain and southwestern France. Many countries dabble in terrorism, but five in particular have become large-scale exporters of insurgency. The five...
...such is Cold Turkey, an extended sitcom loaded with the kind of jokes that induce canned laughter. Like the Mock Turtle, Writer-Director Norman Lear attempts an arithmetic composed of Ambition, Distraction, Uglification and Derision. A tobacco tycoon (the late Edward Everett Horton) offers $25 million to any American city whose inhabitants can quit smoking for 30 days, on the plausible theory that it cannot be done. But he reckons without the Rev. Clayton Brooks (Dick Van Dyke). Led by the uptight, upright preacher, Eagle Rock, Iowa, turns abolitionist. In the process, it writhes with collective withdrawal symptoms familiar...