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Strained Economy. The hot pursuit of guerrillas into Mozambique seemed an almost suicidal provocation, since Smith's government, primarily for economic reasons, cannot afford to alienate Mozambique. Landlocked Rhodesia sends more than half its exports (principally tobacco, asbestos and nickel) through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean ports of Beira and Maputo (formerly Lourenço Marques); Machel could cut off those lifelines. Indeed, at week's end Mozambique authorities arrested 16 Rhodesian railwaymen at the border station of Malvernia, forcing Rhodesia to close the line to Maputo in protest (the Beira line was unaffected...
...revive its longtime dream of a "greater Somalia" by pushing its territorial claims into southern Ethiopia and northeastern Kenya, where many ethnic Somalis live. The Nairobi government also fears that Soviet aid to Uganda might inspire its volatile President Idi Amin to push a corridor to the Indian Ocean-through Kenya...
That could explain the sudden disappearance throughout the earth's history of many animal and plant species, from the single-celled, ocean-dwelling radiolaria to the dinosaurs. Thus, Crutzen and his colleagues note, a long-term threat to the ozone layer from any source may well be a threat to the species that now inhabit the earth-including...
...series of aural reminiscences of his boyhood holidays in Danbury, Conn. Firecrackers explode, a village band escorts the parade to the cemetery to decorate graves, fancy fiddling and a twanging Jew's-harp reverberate through a winter barn dance. Turkey in the Straw, Columbia the Gem of the Ocean, Camptown Races-Ives borrowed quotes from the sound track of his youth. Beneath this patriotic gloss, his own thorny rhythms and free-form counterpoint combine to create music that remains imaginatively American...
Foreign Correspondent, quite simply, is a knockout. It contains one of Hitchcock's most amazing technical achievements, shooting a plane crash into the ocean from the inside, and one of his best plot clues, involving counter-clockwise windmills. One is again reminded, in this film, of Hitchcock's theory that the best way to make a screen villain memorably terrifying is to make him likeable, and the wonderful British actor Herbert Marshall is, in Foreign Correspondent perhaps the most likeable of all Hitchcock's malfeasants...