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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into place on a golf course near Lusaka International Airport last week. Zambian armed forces went on alert, leaves were canceled, and President Kenneth Kaunda issued orders to "shoot on sight" any Rhodesian aircraft that violated his country's airspace. Responding to a warning from Prime Minister Ian Smith that Zambian support for black nationalist guerrillas might lead to pre-emptive strikes, Kaunda dramatically announced that ua state of war" existed between his country and Rhodesia. To prove the point, the Zambians lobbed several mortar shells at the resort town of Victoria Falls-an attack that did not prove...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RHODESIA: Brief Encounters in a Hopeless War | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

King Agamemnon (Jamil Zakkai) has returned from the Trojan War with a concubine, Cassandra (Priscilla Smith...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Vandal Sacks Atreus | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...achieves some of the snap and malice that enlivened such earlier works as The Oldest Confession and The Manchurian Candidate. Caroline, he writes, "tends to overdress except at the bod ices, which are cut so low, the gossip goes, that one can see the top of Sir Sid ney Smith's head." Or, with more subtlety: "She sets her own fashions in dress and, in consequence, introduces the smirk to British society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Royal Flush | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

...wife Clytemnestra (also played by Smith) has taken a lover, Aegisthus (also played by Zakkai). Clytemnestra bears an implacable hatred toward Agamem non for the blood sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia. The king had courted the gods' favoring winds for the voy age to Troy. Agamemnon and Cassandra enter the House of Atreus to be brutally butchered by Clytemnestra...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Vandal Sacks Atreus | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Finally, after weeks of trying to get a hold of the guy, the officials nabbed him in a stake-out at Mem Hall where he was scheduled to take a fine arts mid-year exam. After several hours of denials Pete Brown offered the following explanation. Smith was a vague friend of Brown's who had gone to the same high school. When Smith decided not to go to Harvard--he had indeed enrolled in an area school--Brown decided to assume his identity. He forged letters of recommendation and, in order to get his name changed to Peter Brown...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haruardiana | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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