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Last week the South African Cabinet met twice in preparation for the opening of Parliament, where some lively debate on the Angolan intervention was expected. Some South African government leaders favor a unilateral pullback. They worry that their involvement in an uphill struggle will destroy the fragile détente the country has achieved with some black African states and severely drain the economy. Others argue that the prospect of an outright M.P.L.A. victory in Angola, and the presence of militantly anti-South African Cubans in the country, requires an uncompromising stand. Though Pretoria has announced the biggest reserve call...
Luxembourg's spooks-like the CIA-are currently under fire in the grand duchy's parliament, and may soon be put under an oversight committee in the legislature. Socialist Jean Gremling, who might be called Luxembourg's Frank Church, argues that "we don't want to be part of the silent war between secret service organizations here." That, of course, is just one more confirmation that the silent war in the grand duchy is uncomfortably real...
...other son, Rajiv, 31, is a pilot for India Airlines, the country's domestic carrier. Mrs. Gandhi's husband, Feroze Gandhi, a newspaper editor and Member of Parliament, died...
Said, who heads the Geological Survey of Egypt and holds a seat in the Egyptian Parliament, bases his theory on evidence he found while doing test borings for the Aswan High Dam in 1961. In some of his core samples, Said was puzzled to find a layer of alluvial (deposited by running water) sediment at a depth of 450 ft., well below the level of the modern Mediterranean Sea. Convinced that such deposits could not have been left by today's Nile, Said began looking into the possibility that they were traces of an earlier river...
...lifestyle of her own had failed. She married at 28, after travelling through Europe and going to college, probably because she had no choice if she wished to continue to move freely in a society where spinsters were considered eccentric. Her husband, Philip Morrell, became a member of Parliament some years after their marriage, leaving Ottoline free to throw herself into these webs of relations...