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...nationalism and puritanism color all aspects of life. Foreigners arriving in Libya are sometimes refused entry because their passports have not been translated into Arabic. Immigration men once turned back an entire Italian circus, complete with animals, for this reason. A non-smoker and nondrinker in the strictest Moslem manner, Gaddafi closed all nightclubs, bars and casinos. Last fall he restored the practice of amputations for thievery, in accordance with Koranic law-loss of the right hand for mere theft and the left foot as well for armed robbery...
...Carter goes one step further. In the world premiere last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, the Juilliard Quartet paired off into duos and engaged in a 20-minute adventure in the attraction of opposites. While Duo II (violin and viola) was playing six movements in the strictest of tempos, Duo I (violin and cello) was playing four movements in a very free rubato style. Happily, the two duos not only began but end ed together, proving that being at sixes and fours is not at all like being at sixes and sevens...
Those who witnessed the Republican Convention last month came away with a taste of tactical politics extraordinaire. The Republican were impressive not for their departure from tradition, as the Democrats had been in July, but for their adherence to the strictest guidelines of party politics. They sought to reinforce an already wide lead in Presidential polls, to coalesce unlikely allies into an unbeatable force designed to propel Richard Nixon back to the White House with something he has never won in a Presidential race--the vote of the majority...
South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu now regards the Mekong Delta as the "main front" of the current war-even though the Delta does not have, in the strictest sense, a battle front. Long considered the country's most secure region, the Delta is crucial to both sides; more than a third of South Viet Nam's population lives there, and it grows 80% of the country's rice. As the conventional war to the north remained stalemated last week, attention shifted to the south, where Communist guerrillas are still waging what TIME Correspondent...
...enlighten fellow Soviet Communists about 50 years of their own history and thereby keep the study of "that prolonged disease known as 'the cult of personality' " from being monopolized by bourgeois historians and anti-Communist propagandists. "It is Communists," he writes, "who should be the strictest judges of their own history." He began his work in the thaw that followed Stalin's death. When he was finished twelve years later, the authorities had once again grown defensive. It was only after the Soviet Party Central Committee refused to permit its publication in the U.S.S.R. that Medvedev allowed...