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Topic A in the Sadat household? Of course. But Topic B? Wedding bells. A day after Papa returned to Cairo last week, his only son, Gamal, 21, an engineering student, married Dina Erfan, 20. The reception was held in a massive canvas tent in the gardens of Anwar and Jihan Sadat's residence in Giza, and the 1,500 guests dined simply on cold meats, lemonade and tea. The entertainment was something else. On the program was a blond singer, a comedian and Egypt's two leading belly dancers. For Sadat, it was a perfect way to unwind...
...cheering started up in the tent a quarter of an hour before King made his entrance. "Dump the Duke," they chanted, although the just-announced concession speech made that sentiment a bit dated. Then a touch of originality: "The Duke is dead, long live the King," on and on for a solid seven minutes--good, lusty, raw-throated cheering. Then the man struggled into the tent and the blood frenzy began, an animal roar on the verge of losing control, the disbelief and delight and confusion all muddled together, losing all sense. The band switched from its 14th rendering...
...exceedingly transparent front it was too. The village du livre, a vast tent that is the traditional showcase for Marxist authors' latest books, was barely large enough to contain the hubbub of dissent and debate that has raged through the party since last spring's electoral disaster. The brooding began in April, when Communist Secretary-General Georges Marchais came under widespread attack in party ranks as the cause of the disaster. Critics charged that party leaders' autocratic exercise of "democratic centralism"-the party's code word for unquestioned rule from the top-had provoked the split...
...short distance to the southwest, the worst tent caterpillar infestation in 25 years has already chewed up 40,000 acres of maple and other hardwood forests in the state of Vermont. Yet Vermont foresters consider themselves fortunate. Some mysterious disease seems to be killing off the caterpillars-bugs eating bugs-and earlier estimates that the damage would spread to some 100,000 acres may not prove true...
...million visitors have mobbed hotels, overrun campgrounds and simply parked themselves on roadsides, in vineyards, on beaches and wherever else a speck of bare ground shows itself. Les campeurs sauvages (wild campers) number about 50,000. They are a particular irritation to police, since they will pitch a tent illegally in a parking lot, on a piece of highly desirable beach or even, as one did, on a shady traffic island in the middle of Cannes. Typical is Axel Koenigs, a young West German bank employee who drove to the Côte d'Azur with two friends. After...