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...blown up an important bridge at Keren, on the road to the Sudan to the west. In a drive to cut off the road from the port city of Assab on the Red Sea, the main source of Ethiopia's oil, the guerrillas warned truck drivers: "Put your nose out of town and you will be roasted alive!" Nonetheless, government troops tried to consolidate their hold on Asmara. Refugees, many leading donkeys or pushing wheelbarrows laden with pots and pans, straggled from the city past government tanks and machine-gun positions. At week's end the estimate...
Behind that painted grin and black button nose was Paul McCartney. Together with his wife Linda, 33, and their three children, Paul, 32, was enjoying Mardi Gras in New Orleans. Thoroughly disguised as a manic clown, he cavorted down St. Charles Avenue and watched the Rex parade. The McCartneys have been secluded in New Orleans since mid-January, and this was their coming-out party. Paul is also making a record album, using local jazz musicians. Linda plays along on the organ. Paul was so impressed by the festivities that he wrote a new song, My Carnival, for his album...
Mighty Chain. The greatest pressure for change has come from Willie. Physically akin to his grandfather, with piercing eyes, patrician nose and blond hair, young Hearst says that he has always been fascinated by the once mighty chain of 32 dailies. "As a kid I would go to San Simeon [the vast Hearst estate] and groove on the whole vision. I really admired my grandfather. What a mover! I decided you had to have money to do these things, and I realized the money came from the papers...
...defense attorney has a craggy, hand some face that is the color of boiled beef. The deeply-graven lines from the wings of his nose to the outside of his mouth give him a simian look. You can usually tell how the defense is faring from the mood on William Homans's face. On a disappointing day he is irascible and his forehead is wrinkled. On a good day his eyes light up, and the lines outside his nose become smile lines...
...doubt on the election as a whole. He was "the best-known and most outspoken anti-government legislator." Time explained, as well as "far and away the most popular candidate" in his district. Moreover, he had been jailed for attempted murder halfway through the campaign, after he punched the nose of a government candidate who'd spat in his face. And government officials had apparently threatened to reclassify villages he carried as Communist, which meant they could be demolished and their inhabitants driven out. Since February 1972, when Tin Sang was finally closed (by Duc's reckoning it had been...