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...physical comedy, as rigorously controlled as ballet in its step-by-step demolition of an elegant dinner party by two nincompoop waiters for whom a dog, a banana peel, three whipped-cream cakes, and a lady in a sliding tiara add up to disaster. The theme of tit-for-tat destruction, a comedy cliche raised to classic stature by Laurel and Hardy, is the starting point for an excerpt from their pie-in-the-face epic Battle of the Century. Whether dangling from the girders of an unfinished skyscraper, flattening a bungalow as they build it, or luring a horse...
Subandrio's Refutation. But the army has coined its own acronym for the abortive coup d'état that killed six loyal generals and nearly toppled Sukarno. Gestapu-the initial syllables of the 30th of September Movement-is now Indonesia's vilest villain, as Sukarno's heir apparent, Foreign Minister Subandrio, learned much to his dismay. The army was now wondering if he did not have a role in the bloody coup attempt. But last week Subandrio tried to blame it all on the American CIA. "There are indications," he declared in a speech beneath tinkling...
Planes & Ships. The U.S. first bombed the north in August 1964 in tit-for-tat retaliation for a torpedo-boat attack on two Seventh Fleet destroyers in the Tonkin Gulf. Regular bombings began last February; since then U.S. and South Vietnamese planes have flown more than 50,000 sorties against the enemy. The 800 planes in use range from the old prop-driven Skyraider, whose fond jockeys insist that it can fly home with nearly as much enemy lead in it as the four tons of bombs it can carry out, to the droop-nosed, brutal-looking...
...work for eventual "federal union" with Egypt, made businessmen happy by blasting Marxism, and tried to appeal to left-wing intellectuals by advocating non-Marxist socialism. His goal, said Bazzaz, was to create a flourishing Iraq where there would be no need of "courts-martial, coups d'état and tanks in the streets...
...Middle East has seen just about every sort of coup, from ordinary coups d'état to incredibly swift coups de Jarnac.* But last week Iraq's Premier Aref Abdel Razzak made coup history by trying to overthrow his own government...