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...truths she depicted four years ago. The five men on Ward X are all psychologically unbalanced, though not crazy enough to warrant being shipped off to out-and-out psycho wards at the army's expense. Nurse Honour Langtry tends this motley flock and plays the role of mother, protector and confessor to her charges. She and her patients have been patiently awaiting their discharges when the sudden arrival of Sergeant Michael E. Johnson, shortly after peace has been declared, disrupts the well-established rhythm of the lives of both patients and nurse...
August, the Williams persona (Craig Smith), lives in a shack on the dunes, writing his first major play and trying to entangle Kip, a dancer and Nijinsky look-alike (Elton Cormier), in his grimy bedsheets. But both Kip and Clare (Dominique Cieri), who acts as his protector, are doomed, he by a brain tumor, she by diabetes. The entire work is shadowed by death, which is approaching as quickly as the fall. Both characters seem so tentative, however, that it is even hard to imagine that the end, when it occurs, will matter much to them or anyone else...
Ironically, the Syrian army had originally entered Lebanon in November 1976 as the protector of the Christians in their civil war against the leftist Muslims and Palestinians. The troops have remained there under a peace-keeping mandate from the Arab League. By 1978, however, the Christians had turned against the Syrians and after bitter fighting managed to force them to withdraw from Christian areas of Beirut...
...which is in hot pursuit. If the drugs, and this rotten kid, represent danger, they also offer opportunity. The coke is fungible: it can be converted into a ticket to France for Sally-the opportunity, finally, to act the big-time operator for Lou, who becomes her mentor and protector...
Perhaps no country was more sur prised and upset by the Libya-Chad agreement than France, Chad's former colonial ruler and self-proclaimed postcolonial "protector." Until last May, France regularly backed Chad with financial and military aid, and it privately supported Habre's losing side in the civil war. Thus the mood in Paris now was one of embarrassment as well as consternation. As it happened, the announced merger came only a day after Libyan officials revealed that they had signed a long-term contract with Elf Aquitaine, France's state-con trolled oil company...