Word: smiths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...force that Castro dispatched to Angola last year to help Moscow bring its client regime to power. At present Moscow's Latin Hessians seem to be marking time in the former Portuguese colony, perhaps while waiting for another African assignment. One possibility is Rhodesia, where Prime Minister Ian Smith's white minority regime faces the beginnings of what could be a bloody "war of liberation...
...opposes the Smith government; after all, it speaks for a minority of 278,000 whites in a country of some 6.1 million blacks. But Washington wants a peaceful transition to majority rule in Rhodesia, and it is anxious to head off a possibility of Soviet-Cuban intervention there. For one thing, an intervention of that kind would further tear the already badly shredded fabric of détente. More directly, it would leave the Administration uncomfortably facing a choice between two painful policy alternatives...
...indignant. Alicia Kaye, office manager for a Los Angeles employment agency, reports that liberal-arts majors who are told of openings in insurance or secretarial work often retort: "Why should I take a $600-a-month job when I can collect unemployment benefits?" Others rethink their ambitions: Jackie Smith, a Boston College marketing major who is "shocked and amazed" not to find a job in business, has been a professional boxer for six years and is keeping in shape-just in case. There are graduates who grow frustrated and bitter, and there are those who accept what is available with...
Skeptics pointed out the conventional wisdom: no American political film has made money since Mr. Smith Goes to Washington almost four decades ago. There must have been some temptation to use that appealing film as a model, turning Woodward and Bernstein into updated Jimmy Stewarts?naive, idealistic, full of puff about democratic ideals...
NONFICTION 1-Doris Day, Hotchner (1) 2-World of Our Fathers, Howe (2) 3-The Russians, Smith (3) 4-Winning through Intimidation, Ringer (7) 5-The People's Almanac, Wallechinsky & Wallace (5) 6-Spandau, Speer 7-The Relaxation Response, Benson with Klipper (6) 8-The Adams Chronicles, Shepherd (9) 9-Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (4) 10-Angels, Graham...