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...that the case of Régis Debray "is being re-examined." The French revolutionary is serving 30 years in military prison for his part in Che Guevara's abortive 1966-67 guerrilla campaigns. Should he be freed, Debray, 30, may have a job waiting for him-a safer one. La Paz's "Popular University" of Tupaj Katari is offering him a professorship in Marxist philosophy...
...organic phosphate insecticide was sprayed in the Laboratory's greenhouse last year, it drified into a ventilation fan and wiped out a colony of silk moths in another room. Ironically, these moths were part of a study on moth development and hormones-a project that may lead to a safer class of insecticides...
...President must decide how much military aid, if any, and what kind, the U.S. should provide in response to Lon Nol's personal appeal for help. If Phnom-Penh were to fall, so would the non-Communist government of Cambodia. The North Vietnamese troops would then have even safer sanctuaries and supply routes from which to harass South Viet Nam. But any widening of U.S. involvement would raise political protests at home. The President's televised report to the nation only underscored the dilemma. He bluntly warned Hanoi's leaders that they would be taking "grave risks...
...think about what the Israelis are looking for. Yet there is little sense of actual physical danger; in fact, the danger is slight. The terrorist attacks within Israel are pretty much under control, and the chances of a full-scale war at this time are minimal. It is probably safer there than in New Yourk...
Maggie feels really alive only onstage. "Everything is sharpened and heightened, and I know what I'm supposed to be," she says. "I feel safer." With her gifts, she should. The ultimate comment on Maggie's precise, disciplined style comes from Noel Coward, who directed her in a deliciously campy revival of his play Hay Fever at the National in 1964. Coward has a horror of "faffing," which is the affected hemming and hesitating that shatters the rhythm of a line or a scene and blurs its point. "Maggie," proclaims Sir Noel, "never faffs." Except offstage. There...