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...creation of the Maysles brothers (Gimme Shelter, Salesman), concerns the dilapidated lives of Edith Beale, 79, and her daughter Edie, 56. Both women live in East Hampton, Long Island, performing some dizzy charade out of The Madwoman of Chaillot. Grey Gardens, the crumbling house they inhabit, is overrun by raccoons, squirrels and other woodland creatures. The two women live mostly in one room, where the beds .are covered with cans of cat food, the floors ankle-deep in garbage. Occasionally a handyman named Jerry drops by for a visit...
Equally worrisome was the fate of thousands of civilians who fled before the M.P.L.A. advance. Some 80,000 refugees were heading south, threatening to overrun four camps South Africa maintains just inside Angola, already crowded with 12,000 earlier refugees. Last week the United Nations refused to give South Africa money to deal with the additional flood, but the Red Cross promised an airlift of blankets, tents and medicine...
...F.N.L.A.-from making a retaliatory move against the oil-rich northern enclave of Cabinda. In any case, the M.P.L.A. has stationed 2,000 of its best troops in Cabinda, helped by some Cubans and armed with Soviet T-54 tanks. Thus it is unlikely that Mobutu could overrun Cabinda even if he tried...
Louis E. Martin, Librarian of Harvard College, attributed his prediction of a cost overrun to minor disputes with construction contractors and extra spending for more security, but added that he considered the potential spending increase "moderate...
American Threat. That prospect does not trouble those Canadians who believe that their national identity is seriously threatened from south of the border. "We have to create our own identity," said Faulkner in a recent interview. "We have to protect ourselves. The alternative is to be simply overrun by the American arts and cultures...