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BRIDESHEAD REVISITED PBS, beginning Jan. 18, 8 p.m., E.S.T. It is an odd book by one of the century's oddest writers, and even he had serious reservations about it. "I reread Brideshead and was appalled," he wrote Graham Greene in 1950, five years after publication. But Brideshead Revisited, overwritten and underplotted, is and probably will remain Evelyn Waugh's best-known and most popular novel, a lush, sentimental tribute to Catholicism and to the period between the wars that Waugh regarded as the last gorgeous days of the British aristocracy. Now, in this lavish and beautiful eleven...
Computers reread Genesis...
...read and reread with great interest your article about the fear of Viet Nam by Cambodia and Thailand. As a South Vietnamese who suffered the inhumanity of the Communists for more than five years, I can only regret how much damage the American press did both to us and to the American people. Only the negative aspects of South Vietnamese efforts were emphasized. Similarly the American involvement was viewed with skepticism. This of course served our enemies well. The result was that we lost our land, and our people were put under the rule of the new Soviet tsars...
Realizing that the Esmeralda management meant the Cuban government, Glassman reread the documents, substituting Cuba for Esmeralda. One report discussed the Communist official's trip and the weapons he was promised. Another document spoke of Esmeralda-Cuba as a transshipment point for weapons from Ethiopia and Viet Nam, and mentioned guerrilla supply lines through Nicaragua. The grocery-store papers represented over 70% of the material that Washington used to draw up last month's White Paper documenting Soviet and Cuban arms aid to El Salvador's insurgency...
...second day of deliberation, the jury took its first vote: it was split. The crucial factor in the jurors' minds was Harris' detailed yet contradictory description of the shootings. They asked to have five hours of her testimony reread. Foreman Russell Von Glahn, a bus mechanic from Yonkers, had a clerk repeat aloud again and again the parts where Harris tried to recall how the shots were fired. Marion Stephens, a teacher from Rye, asked to have Harris' account of how she attempted suicide reread twice...