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Like angry ants in a vast sandpile, the combatants in a little-known African war of liberation are carrying out search-and-destroy missions in the desolate 100,000-sq.-mi. area once known as the Spanish Sahara. On one side are an estimated 30,000 troops from Morocco and Mauritania, which claimed the land that Spain surrendered sovereignty over last year under strong United Nations pressure. Opposing are the 5,000 guerrillas of the Frente Polisario (for Popular Front for the Liberation of Saguia el Hamra and Rio de Oro, the two provinces involved). Polisario is fighting to gain...
...Interior Secretary. He was the only man ever considered for the job, said Carter. A flamboyant, maverick Democrat, Andrus has built his political career on the bedrock of espousing conservation causes−a subject that much interests Carter. Andrus gained his experience in a mountainous, 83,550-sq.-mi. state, where nearly two-thirds of the land is under federal control and hence subject to intensive pressures from those who want to exploit its natural resources...
...local Democratic machine and concentrated on opposing mining interests who wanted to despoil the White Cloud Peaks−a federal recreation area−n search of molybdenum. After his election, he continued to pound at his preservation theme, winning a long and bitter fight to protect a 2,000-sq.-mi. "primitive area" from lumbering interests. Going against the wishes of local power companies, he opposed construction of a giant coal-fired electrical generator not far from the state capital of Boise. He also demanded that Atomic Energy Commission monitoring of radioactive wastes in the state be double-checked...
...this chivalric age. Just listen to the electric-heart-blending story of the pick-up truck girl if you doubt me. And if you've been crispy-ried black by the rest of this album run out to the hardware store for a $1.20 blue lightbulb, to Brattle Sq. florist for six peacock feathers--39 cents each--and find your latest Hawaiian Gold dispensing amigo. Settle down together and listen to Melody. Say. "I'm gonna fix my face, don't you worry I'll be back." Blue, blue--I believe there's a philosophical inquiry into the nature...
...UNICORN TAPESTRIES by Margaret B. Freeman. 244 pages. The Metropolitan Museum of Art/Dutton. $45. The seven magnificent tapestries depicting the hunt of the unicorn (on permanent display at the Cloisters in Manhattan) dazzle the eye. Woven into the tapestries' more than 1,000 sq. ft. is a graphic portrait of the medieval mind, frozen at a time (circa 1500) when thought was beginning to shift from heaven to earth. Thus while the tapestries tell the story of a bridegroom brought to the altar and of the death and resurrection of Christ, they also show the realistic hunt...