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From another peak about 5,000 ft. above the valley floor, we were able to look down into Khonis, a village in which the Soviets had set up a base. Tanks with huge rollers to predetonate mines were sweeping the main road through the town. Another tank was trying to move a destroyed armored personnel carrier out of the way. Some Soviet soldiers were sitting on a large carpet they had removed from an abandoned home. In the river was the wreckage of two Soviet helicopters that had been shot down earlier in the fighting. From time to time...
...Wichser incident was obviously meant to serve as a warning to foreigners, and any nationals who might befriend them, to chill such contacts. The Chinese xenophobia reached a peak during the Cultural Revolution but eased in 1976 after the death of Mao Tse-tung. Indeed, Mao's successors "rectified" the error of his fear of foreigners by encouraging association with them as a basis for learning. At the time, of course, contact could be controlled: the diplomats lived in compounds, the foreign press was cautious, and the students and teachers who came were mostly believers in the Maoist revolution...
...ultimate tax protest. The residents of Loyalton, S. Dak., all five of them, got together last week and passed a measure guaranteed to reduce the cost of living in their town. They voted it out of existence. There was nothing impulsive about the move. Loyalton, which reached its peak population of 180 back in 1918, closed its high school in 1945; the grade school went in 1970, and nine years ago the post office shut down. Except for two ramshackle houses and an abandoned hotel, the buildings along Main Street have surrendered to fire, tornadoes and neglect. Loyalton...
Magnificently true to the spirit of Euripides is Judith Anderson-as well she should be. She acted the title role in the adaptation's memorable 1947 premiere. At 84, Anderson plays Medea's redoubtable old nurse and reaches a peak with the oncoming slaughter of the innocents, vainly attempting to thwart the horror with chilling words of prophecy...
Perhaps the saddest scene in the Sinai was the ruins of Yamit, the Mediterranean coastal settlement (pop. 2,400 at its 1977 peak) that the Israelis destroyed with bulldozers before leaving. Previously the government had hinted that this was necessary to prevent the Israeli settlers from returning to it or the Egyptians from inheriting a city dangerously close to the Israeli border. Last week, however, some Israelis complained that the matter had been settled by Begin and Sharon without consulting the Cabinet or any ministerial committee. Said a puzzled Israeli general: "We should have left Yamit intact and handed...