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Arbitrary Borders. Initially, Mobutu's Western supporters shied away from getting bogged down in another Congolese war. Belgium, France and the U.S. sent token military supplies last month-and hoped the threat would just go away. It did not. The Katangese occupied much of the copper-rich Shaba area...
Cut-Rate Action. Shoppers shied away from items of total uselessness, such as the "Pet Rock" of last year, and spent their money on gifts of genuine utility or entertainment. Korvette's in New York sold 30,000 video-game consoles, which turn home TV screens into playing "fields...
Wary Voters. Still, Japanese voters remain wary of radical alternatives. Among the strongest evidence of that was the pounding the Communists took at the polls. Voters apparently shied away from giving them real power as the L.D.P. weakened. Indeed, last week's most striking gains were scored by the...
In dealing with Waterloo, Keegan argues that the battle was decided less by Wellington and Napoleon than the enormous confusion that enveloped the 70,000 troops on each side: blinding smoke, choking fumes, ear-shattering noise. Again and again, French cavalry attacked standing squares of British infantry and were driven...
THE GROVE PRESS offers up this plump, accessible volume to the generous consideration of literary skimmers who have shied away from the deepening mire of Beckett study. Interest in Beckett is at once so sticky a wicket to most people that they turn away from even the intrinsic pleasure of...