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Africa's 51st independent state was born at a midnight ceremony that was almost like a love-in. Representatives of 96 nations, headed by Britain's Prince Charles, were among the 40,000 spectators* who jammed a football stadium in Salisbury (soon to be renamed Harare, after a...
Still, Hook is at his keenest at war with ideas or with historians. Arnold Toynbee's pious but inexact theories, T.S. Eliot's elitist culture of the future, Alger Hiss's claim of innocence - these are the stuff of enduring debate, and even when his case is...
Some of the finest objects in the show come from the tomb of Fu Hao (circa 1300 B.C.), which was unearthed at Anyang only four years ago. A formidable woman, Fu Hao was the consort of the Emperor Wu Ding; on occasion, she led his armies into battle. Her tomb...
More recently, Bourguet has served as a legal adviser to the Iranian government. He helped prepare the extradition papers that Iran sent to Panama in its effort to capture the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, an effort that prompted the ailing Shah to flee to Egypt three weeks ago. In...
This is no mean feat. In the man-eating jazz business, those musicians who survive to enjoy advanced age have usually developed a ring of impregnable defenses which make it difficult for anyone, especially young white filmmakers, to get too close. Viewers saw Count Basie's legendary reserve during an...