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...Vietnam veteran and the havoc he creates back home with his family. In Joseph Papp's original Public Theater version a few years ago the play had a hypnotically entrancing effect, but there really isn't that much analysis to it. It's a play about Vietnam as a pretext and not an event. That's okay, I guess--just don't expect that it'll take on any important new meanings in the context of the last few days. At Dunster House tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Sunday night at 8:30 p.m., as well as next weekend...
...reality I was only an absurd puppet pushed to and fro by the will of those yellow faces behind." After the ritual sacrifice, the writer confesses, "I was very glad that the coolie had been killed; it put me legally in the right and it gave me a sufficient pretext for shooting the elephant. I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool." That is more than the bottom line of a 1936 article; it is the epitaph of the British imperial style...
...North Vietnamese will not go any further and launch a major offensive, Marr explained, because "North Vietnam does not want to give the United States any pretext to resume bombing...
...Kremlin, if only because the Russians have never solved the problem of how to transfer authority in an orderly succession. According to this logic, competing factions in the Kremlin would try to exploit Brezhnev's physical weakness by pinning any recent policy failures on him as a pretext to seize power. Columbia University Political Scientist Zbigniew Brzezinski, as well as many Moscow-based diplomats, speculate that the party chief has already come under attack for two policy failures. One is his inability to improve Soviet relations with Egyptian Premier Anwar Sadat. Another is the wording of the U.S. trade...
...maximum alert, and warned that if there were renewed fighting among Greek Cypriots, it would intervene to protect the 30,000 Turkish Cypriots living in the Greek-controlled part of the island. As tensions mounted, a Cypriot government spokesman charged that the Ankara government was looking for a pretext to launch a fresh military operation-the dreaded "third round" that Greeks fear would enable Turkey to overrun the rest of the island (it now controls 40% of the territory...