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...familiar with the Greco-Roman ideal--mens sana in corpore sano--of fitness in both mind and body. Harvard, as an institution of academic excellence, however, sometimes seems to place undue emphasis on the body part instead of the mind...
...they had secured the radio and television stations in Lagos and had begun to take prominent politicians into custody. They temporarily cut international telephone and telex lines and closed down airports, border posts and the port of Lagos. At 7:30, a member of the new junta, Brigadier Sana Abacha, announced over Nigerian radio that the Shagari government had been overthrown. For the most part, Nigerians seemed to accept the news with a shrug and an instinct that the change was not going to make matters any worse...
...announcement last Saturday over Nigeria's Radio Lagos was brief and enigmatic. Claiming to speak on behalf of the country's armed forces, Brigadier General Sana Abacha of the Nigerian army declared that he and his colleagues had "decided to effect a change in the leadership of the government" of President Shehu Shagari, 58. "This task," said Abacha, "has just been completed." The general then announced that all political parties were being banned and communications with the outside world suspended, and that a dusk-to-dawn curfew was being imposed. Only four months after Nigeria...
From Damascus, the official news agency, SANA, reported that Syria was staging war games on its own territory to show that its forces were "continuously ready to confront Israel at any time." Rumors that Syria had sent some 4,000 of its peace-keeping forces south of the Beirut-Damascus highway, however, were refuted by U.N. and U.S. observers...
...both believable and likable. In Clare, a 22-year-old book editor, Nore finds "a feeling of continuity, of belonging." In addition, Clare helps him realize that he has a way with a shutter that is more distinctive by far than his hand with a whip. Lens sana in corpore sano. This is Francis' most complex novel to date. It proves that writers, unlike jockeys, can get better each time around. -By Michael Demarest