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...independence in Philadelphia and General Washington's preparations to defend New York, but also a series of strangely familiar stories. Inflation was ravaging the Colonies (beef was up 114% in three months), and in distant Viet Nam, a civil war was raging (rebels captured the settlement of Ta Ngon, or Saigon, in the spring of 1776). The research also unearthed some fascinating minutiae: there was only one working toilet in the Colonies - property of a former Royal Governor of Maryland; the na scent sport of golf was played with feather-stuffed leather balls; Boston stores had just begun selling...
This excitement doesn't come from witty titles like Dean-Askin's Bottcellis parody. The Dearth of Venus of Ta Kuang Chang's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Mouna L a. Nor does it show up in Carlo G. Brogna's paating of a toilet with an accompanying roll of toiled paper tacked to the wall. Julia Allard's say of three mouths-obviously an assignment from a drawing class-is less striking than any of these but also more hosest. Because it's good--she's taken a simple exercise and brought life...
Thanks to this arms race, tension has already begun building on the Peru-Chile border. Lima's military strongmen are believed to want to retake the Ta-rapaca province which Peru lost to Chile during the War of the Pacific (1879-1883). Peru has its new Soviet-made equipment; Santiago, meanwhile, is receiving more than $500 million in warplanes, tanks and ships purchased in the past 18 months from the U.S. and Europe. Fearing that it will be caught in the middle if war erupts, Bolivia has decided that it must modernize its weaponry to protect itself, even though...
...whenever he appeared in public, the President at one point declared that it was "a great day for France." In fact, it was a national day of mourning. At the U.S. embassy, Nixon startled British Prime Minister Harold Wilson by enthusiastically grabbing his face with both hands, Italian "good-ta-see-ya" style. Then, motioning toward a blonde woman in Wilson's entourage, the President asked: "Is that the one we've been hearing about?" It was an obvious and tactless reference to Wilson's private secretary, Marcia Williams, who has been implicated in a land speculation...
Even before their spectacular assassination of President Luis Carrero Blanco, members of the E.T. A. (for Euzkadi Ta Azkatasuna-meaning Basque Land and Liberty) were electrifying Spain with their terrorist raids. In addition to many fire and bombing attacks, the small band of fanatical Basque separatists has since 1969 committed six assassinations, three kidnapings and 40 bank raids, collecting $14 million. Earlier this year, after police fatally shot a Basque leader, Eustaquio Mendizabal, the E.T. A. was comparatively quiet. But the Basques have recently renewed their terrorism with a vengeance. Their ultimate, if fanciful aim: to unite all the Basques...