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...request for an extended interview, but finally agreed on the condition that what he said would not be used until, as he delicately put it, "events had taken their course." By last week, when the cover story was going to press, Kraar had finished a two-year stint in India and was on his way to a new assignment in Southeast Asia. Our new bureau chief in New Delhi, bringing the on-the-scene aspects of the story up to date, is Marvin Zim, who, as a Washington correspondent, had worked on that end of the story before he left...
Heath took a gentleman's second at Oxford, but came out a remarkable first in the civil service exams. After a stint in the civil service, he went into banking as an executive trainee, finally found his calling when the Tories invited him in 1950 to stand for Parliament in Bexley. He ousted the incumbent Laborite by 133 votes. He mastered the intricacies of the House so well that by 1955 he was Chief Whip and played a critical role in holding the Tories together through the tumultuous days of the Suez crisis. A Cabinet post (Labor...
Then Randal got a break. The Paris bureau telephoned with the news that Algeria's Ben Bella had been overthrown and that Randal, who recently completed a three-year stint in that area, was needed to cover the story. After hurried apologies to his host, he caught the next plane to Algiers. When he got back to the Chagall story two weeks later, Randal found the old painter most impressed that this young reporter who was interviewing him also rushed out to cover coups. Chagall demanded a complete, firsthand account of the situation in Algeria. Suddenly, Randal...
...Lodge are old Capitol Hill colleagues and they speak the same language, although with different accents. As a Republican, Lodge lends an aura of bipartisanship to the U.S.'s Viet Nam policy at a time when G.O.P. criticism of that policy is rising. During his previous Saigon stint, Lodge earned the respect, if not the affection, of South Viet Nam's feuding political and religious factions...
Dingaka may mark a trend of sorts. Most made-in-Africa melodramas use throbbing tom-toms and tribal dances merely as an exotic backdrop for the doings of great white hunters, drunken missionaries, or dissatisfied colonial wives. In Dingaka, South African Writer-Director Jamie Uys does not stint on music and dance, which are an absorbing show in themselves. But the details of native life always remain relevant to this earnest, primitive drama about a proud tribesman (Ken Gampu) whose thirst for vengeance hurls him against the apparatus of white justice in Johannesburg...