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WHEN he succeeded the late Gamal Abdel Nasser last October, he was greeted with a cascade of tasteless jokes. "We're suffering two plagues at one time. First Nasser dies. Then we get Sadat." Haughty survivors of the ancient r??gime ridiculed him for his dusky skin (from his Sudanese mother) and because he had come from an impoverished delta village that is so remote, the nearest bus route is a mile away. Politicians dismissed him as a light-weight whose chief talent was sheer survival. When he delivered his first May Day speech in the steelmaking city of Helwan...
...forcible sodomy that used to take place out of the audience's sight is now grimly visible (though simulated). In movies, too, homosexuality is the vogue: Staircase, starring Rex Harrison and Richard Burton, Midnight Cowboy and Fellini's forthcoming Satyricon. On the lesbian side there are The Fox, Thér??se and Isabelle, and The Killing of Sister George...
...summertime visit to the Spanish coast, where villas rent for a fraction of the price they command on the Riviera. Politics, which not so long ago determined whether fresh milk was available at the store, has become a subject of occasional levity. At Paris' Ca-veau de la R??publique, a political cabaret near the Place de la R??publique, performers last week managed to take the political news in stride. "Imagine if Premier Couve de Murville were to become President," groaned one. "Saying 'Vive De Gaulle' was easy enough, but what a time we would have shouting 'Vive Couve...
...Gaulle?and Paris?had arranged a hero's welcome. There were two dazzling escorts: first, 50 epauleted motorcycle police, then the plumed, sword-bearing cavalry of the Garde R??publicaine. Gay banners of red, white and blue bedecked the streets; kiosks were dotted with magazine pictures of the visitors. The huge crowd?including some Latin Quarter students who hoisted a Harvard banner and others who roared out a football-chant countdown of "Kenne-un, Kenne-deux, Kenne-trois . . . Kenne-dix!"?warmly greeted Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy. After the trip. De Gaulle proudly told Kennedy: "You had more than...
Last week President R??os tried again. Out went seven members of the tecnico Cabinet which he formed three months ago in the hope that it would bring the politicians into line. In came the party men again, five Radicals, two Liberals. Most of the new Cabinet members had been seen before. The people knew them and were skeptical. The parties knew them and remained dissatisfied. The President knew them but maintained that this time the Cabinet "must devote itself exclusively to the welfare of the country. Political incidents may take place, but they must be disregarded...