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...result so far is something of a geo-political standoff. The Soviets have lost their primary Indian Ocean naval facility, but can probably find some kind of alternative-possibly on Ethiopia's Red Sea coastline. They have exchanged the friendship of Somalia for that of a far bigger country. But Ethiopia is an extremely fragile ally that is fighting wars in its northern province of Eritrea as well as the Ogaden, and is led by an unstable junta. Only last week the junta executed its second in command, Lieut. Colonel Atnafu Abate...
...tweed hat for a headdress. The star of My Fair Lady is a very different kind of gent in his latest film, Shalimar. This time Rex Harrison plays a chap called Sir John, "the world's greatest jewel thief," who lives on an island in the Indian Ocean with his own private army. "The character I play is different from the usual," says Rex. "Sir John is slightly tougher and demented and more sadistic." He is also crafty. To scare off a band of would-be murderers, he dons his mad hat and plays a witch doctor...
Hardest hit is Puerto Rico, which is almost entirely dependent on ocean shipping for its survival. About 80% of shipments to San Juan from Gulf and East Coast ports have been blocked. Fomento, the island's economic development agency, issued a report saying that at the end of the strike's sixth week-about now-67,000 jobs would be threatened, adding to unemployment that already stands at 194,000. At least 60 companies have shut down, and 3 million man-days of work have already been lost...
...first time Critic Edmund Wilson visited Brooklyn, he found "a whole new world, which seemed to me inexplicably attractive ... There was space and ocean air and light, and what seemed to me?it was what most astonished me?an atmosphere of freedom and leisure quite unknown on the other side." That description was published 35 years ago. Today, life for many of Brooklyn's 2.4 million inhabitants has taken an all too familiar urban turn. Tales of metropolitan life that came from three Brooklyn neighborhoods last week...
...lost in the depths of the land." Peter Forbath shares Conrad's feeling for this mighty, mysterious river, which rises in southeastern Central Africa, more than 1,000 miles south of the equator and about a mile above sea level, and ends 3,000 miles later in the Atlantic Ocean. Forbath first saw the river as a journalist during the Simba uprising that bloodied the Congo basin in 1964. He has spent the intervening years assembling the story of what Central Africans call "the river that swallows all rivers." The result is an absorbing, fast-paced book that deserves...