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...alot of vacation shots," Moore said last night. "They stung my opponent...
...Stung Again. The possibility of all-out war stirred fears throughout the Arab world. Egypt's Anwar Sadat, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba and Iraq's Ahmed Hassan Bakr telephoned Hassan and Algerian President Houari Boumedienne to urge a ceasefire. Syria's Hafez Assad dispatched Vice Premier Mohammed Haidar and Chief of Staff General Hikmat Chehabi to Algiers and Rabat to try to defuse what Damascus radio called "the explosive situation...
...week's end Moroccan communiqués claimed the area had been "cleansed of all rebel elements." Algerian pride, still wounded by a Moroccan whipping in the 1963 border war, had been stung again. Should Boumedienne try to even the score, Algeria's army would be far from supply bases and pitted against a Moroccan force roughly its equal in size and skill. But Algeria's 3-to-1 advantage in air power could prove decisive in the Sahara's frigid, windswept wadies and salt flats, whose sparse vegetation creates ideal strafing ground...
...gadfly was stung in turn by Robert Benchley's parody of factual anthologies, Did You Know That- Ice is really a vegetable organism which forms on the surface of water to prevent it from freezing solid...
...Indian democracy, are beginning to feel that the changes of 1975 will be permanent, or at least long-lasting. Perhaps the country's most unhappy lot (apart from the thousands who are still being detained without trial) is the now-shackled press. Somnambulant since June, it was stung to modest rebellion by harsh new controls in early December, which among other things abolished the right of newspapers to report parliamentary debate without restriction, a privilege they had enjoyed for 19 years. The result was a rash of mildly sarcastic cartoons. After the Chandigarh announcement last week, the Indian Express...