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Durrell (rhymes with squirrel) is as fascinated by queer animals as his brother Lawrence (The Alexandria Quartet) is by queer people. In previous books, he has sought them out in such odd corners as backwoods Uruguay and Sierra Leone. This time he journeys to the "attic of the world"-Australia-where, owing to the early destruction of the land bridge to Asia, the island continent became an asylum for the primitive marsupials and monotremes. There, an odd sort of evolution took place: instead of the great herds of hoofed animals that developed on other continents, Australia produced kangaroos and wallabies...
Collapsing Dome. Southern California's ill winds have their genesis over the Great Basin, a vast plateau that includes the Mojave Desert and is bounded by the Rocky Mountains on the east and the Sierra Nevada to the west. For reasons still not fully understood by meteorologists, dry winds from the north and northwest are occasionally trapped over the basin and form into a stationary dome of high-pressure air. Two or three days later, when the enormous dome collapses, its great mass of air begins moving toward nearby low-pressure areas. Blocked by the towering walls...
Vain Hope? Zambia, whose economy is closely linked to Rhodesia's, threatened to leave the Commonwealth entirely. Five African heads of state found excuses not to attend the conference, and Tanzania's Julius Nyerere refused even to send a delegation in his place. Sierra Leone's Sir Albert Margai, one of the four African Premiers who showed up in person, apparently came to the meeting for the sole purpose of attacking Harold Wilson: in a bitter two-hour tirade, he accused the British leader of everything from duplicity to being "anti-African...
...economy. The most vocal absentee: Zambia's Kenneth Kaunda, who threatens to leave the Commonwealth entirely unless a full-scale invasion is mounted to bring force against its southern neighbor. Another absentee, Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, is almost equally adamant. Arriving in London for the conference, Sierra Leone's Sir Albert Margai offered Britain an alternative: either invade or turn the whole affair over to the United Nations. Failing that, warned Sir Albert, Sierra Leone might quit the Commonwealth. Other black African nations might well do the same. But Britain's military resources are already stretched...
Difficulties with the sound track in the first movie pushed the evening behind schedule, so the Committee decided to cancel the planned panel. "It's a shame," Daniel Hartline, graduate student in biology and member of the Sierra Club, said afterwards. "There were some things that should have been discussed...