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Doddering Prey. With extraordinary skill, Amis manages to have fun with such things as Marigold's fear of losing her memory, Zeyer's stroke-induced nominal aphasia. (Nouns escape him and periphrasis ensues, with a passport, for example, becoming "the thing you have to show when you leave a country.") Even Shorty's interior dialogues with his own bowels are put to comic use, along with the fact that old people are often mean and silly, and fall down easily. Amis pursues his doddering prey with tiny twists of plot: through the use of stink bombs, squirt...
Under an archaic law, any guest registering at a French hotel is required to fill out and sign a form, called la fiche, establishing his identity, address, occupation and, if a foreigner, his passport number. Fichisme is not only a chore for hoteliers, who must turn in the forms to the commissariat. For loving-if uncertified-couples, it can also be a mortifying ordeal, involving all the devices and evasions of a Feydeau comedy...
...Turks were kept in their place as second-rate citizens. If a Turkish Cypriot wanted to travel abroad, he had a hard time getting a passport from the Makarios administration, unless he wanted to emigrate to Australia. Then they were delighted to give him a passport and pay for his fare-one way. Turkish Cypriot farmers received less for their produce than Greek Cypriots. There are hundreds of other examples of discrimination. The only solution is to give Turkish Cypriots a fair share of the island. But here in Geneva Mavros and Clerides did not move an inch on this...
...invitation only. Yet Moon Se Kwang, 23, a Korean citizen who was a longtime resident of Osaka, Japan, somehow managed to pass himself off as a Japanese diplomat and to get in carrying a snub-nosed revolver. Moon had entered Korea nine days before on a Japanese passport issued in another man's name and had $1,200 in his pocket when captured. Japanese police said that he was unemployed and known as a radical leftist. The fact that Moon had lived in Japan ignited lingering Korean hostility toward the Japanese; resentment became more pronounced when it was learned...
...plain-spoken former grease monkey and TWA flight engineer from Bridgeport, Conn., Schwimmer can barely speak Hebrew after 22 years in Israel. Many military men were troubled by the key role that a civilian with a U.S. passport was playing in their country's defense. Israel's Connecticut Yankee has survived, however, and not just because Dayan has been replaced by Shimon Peres, a Schwimmer champion for years. Pressed by mounting criticism and Dayan's maneuvering, Schwimmer decided just before the October war to reveal I.A.I.'s balance sheet for the first time-and the figures...