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...morning of Nov. 30, 22 years ago, a Soviet land-sea-air offensive against Finland ended prolonged negotiations over Soviet demands for Finnish territory. Numerically overpowering Russian troops expected to overrun Finland in days, but heroic resistance by skillful, ski-equipped troops fought the enemy to a virtual standstill until the final collapse of the Finns 16 weeks later...
...preserve on the Welsh border. But the energy of their manias is fussed away to little effect, for in the final chapters, rather irrelevantly, there is a war. Using conventional weapons (the U.S. and Russia have jointly threatened to obliterate any nation using atomic bombs), the countries of Europe overrun England. The book ends with the coming of peace and the kind of normality in which things get worse...
...animated Canada "overrun by Canadians and smugglers." the show presents Dudley Do-Right of the Mounted Police; and in a satire on hi-fi and electronics there is a tape recorder that plays bagpipes when it is fed Scotch tape. Also, there is a biweekly revival of Aesop, who tells fables for our prime time, such as one about a neurotic lion who would rather sing than roar. Every time he tries to roar, he sneezes. ''You need help. Leo baby," says his friend the fox. And with the fox as agent, Leo becomes a celebrated pop singer...
Britain's newest animal menace is a big (larger than a muskrat), large-toothed South American rodent called the coypu (Myocastor coypns), better known as the nutria.* Already the coypu has overrun an estimated 40,000 acres in Norfolk, Sussex and Essex counties, and is munching its way inexorably northward. Its appetite is inexhaustible, and by no means limited to farm crops: a Great Yarmouth farm wife recently complained that coypus were boldly gnawing her window frames, and in some East Anglian river towns, coypus have been known to free boats from their moorings by chewing through the lines...
Ashes and Diamonds (in Polish). A powerful morality piece on the politics of assassination in a postwar Poland not yet overrun by the Communists...