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...began strafing an Egyptian army camp at Dahshur, barely 21 miles south of Cairo. Then, while thousands of Cairenes rushed to rooftops and windows to see what was going on, the jets wheeled to the north and attacked a second camp just one mile from Maadi, a fashionable suburb of diplomats, foreign oilmen and well-to-do Egyptians. Housewives ducked into basements, and the 300 students at Cairo's American College, three blocks from the besieged camp, were herded to the interior of their building as windows began shattering. For the first time since the 1967 war, antiaircraft fire...
Though Bellow has always been "book-crazy, fiercely concentrated on being a writer," he has come to academic life and to eminence the long way round. He was born in Lachine, Quebec, an industrial suburb of Montreal, in 1915. just two years after his Russian parents emigrated from St. Petersburg. (He still speaks fluent French.) "It was a polyglot village of Sicilians, Ukrainians, Scots, Croats and Indians," Bellow remembers. "I had an Iroquois nurse who chewed meat before feeding it to me. I'm sure it did me good...
...last week had the fugitive look of men on the run. They were driven to the Federal Palace Hotel through deserted streets heavy with the stifling heat of Africa's dry season. Next morning, after a fitful sleep, they were escorted to the Dodan military barracks in a suburb of the Nigerian capital. There, in the first formal surrender ceremonies to end a military conflict since World War II, Biafra's Major General Philip Effiong signed a document ending the bitter 31-month civil war that has raged between Nigeria and its breakaway Eastern Region...
...National Boulevard Bank before winning election as state treasurer in 1964 and attorney general in 1968. He is trim, handsome and only 43. Along with his political ambitions, though, Scott just hates pollution, as he has ever since his daughter was born with asthma in a smoggy Chicago suburb. "I had to carry her in my arms while she gasped for every breath," he recalls. "What greater crime is there than to poison the air that people breathe...
Television viewers will find little alteration in their favorite. Director Bill Melendez and Producer Lee Mendelson (who also worked together on the TV specials) have scrupulously preserved the eternal suburb of the Peanuts parade, largely through the use of children's voices and subtle, understated colors. Once again, Lucy leads her girls' liberation movement; once again Linus and his blanket play variations on a thumb while Snoopy dogs the Red Baron in his dreams...