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...voluntary, but only 2 million responded. Then, in 1973, Nyerere's party ordered everyone in the countryside to the villages. Army units loaded peasants into trucks. Those who balked saw their huts bulldozed or ignited. Scores, perhaps hundreds, died. Some who stubbornly remained on their lands became easy prey for lions, while those who tried to organize resistance were jailed. Today about 14 million Tanzanians live in ujamaa villages...
...Elvis Costello album, and I grow more and more impatient with those who dismiss this "new wave" of really interesting music out of hand while they keep tuning in the same old Phoebe Snow when it's snowing out, or, even when it's not, allowing themselves to fall prey to a music industry which thinks it can sustain itself by suffusing everything with progressively less-and-less-thinly-veiled sexual imagery and by deifying preposterous 40-year old monstrosities like Heart and Queen and Kiss...
...hear the President undiplomatically instructing Secretary of State Cyrus Vance to send a "cold and very blunt" note to Indian Prime Minister Morarji Desai about his nuclear policy. The dinner in the same capital dominated by a singleminded flycatcher who hovered behind Carter until -swat!-he nailed his prey and plucked it daintily from the linen. The Secret Service walkie-talkie conversations that somehow got broadcast over a microphone in the Casino de Paris in the midst of rehearsals by topless cancan dancers. All in all, said the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Carter has "proved that he can do with words...
Even Boston, home of the bean and the cod, has fallen prey to creeping gourmandise. Quincy Market, the city's elegantly renovated 550-ft.-long hall of food stalls, worried investors when it opened last year; it became an instant smash. While Washington, D.C., has traditionally esteemed the catered affair above the cookin, hostesses, bureaucrats, housewives ?and fathers with small children in tow?form long lines as early as 8 a.m. for the twice-weekly sales of the Montgomery Farm Woman's Cooperative Market in Bethesda, Md., all of whose members must own at least three acres of productive...
...bear on these elusive creatures. The 41 color paintings by J. Fenwick Lansdowne are reproduced so sharply that light seems to glance off eyes and feathers. Ripley furnishes all the required taxonomy for experts-and some doleful news for everyone. Because they fly poorly, these birds are easy prey for predators. Their preferred nesting sites-marshes and coastal wetlands-are being drained by progress. Some recently extinct species can now only be seen in places like Rails of the World...