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...South Africa's Defense Forces, admitted that the country still had military units in Angola on "reconnaissance and information-gathering" missions against rebel groups like the African National Congress (ANC), which is known to have bases there. But the captured leader of the commando squad, Captain Wynand Petrus du Toit, during a press conference in Luanda gave a very different version of the foray, in which two commandos were killed (the others escaped...
...bearded Du Toit, 27, still wearing hospital pajamas and with his arm in a sling, said his unit had been sent into Angola to blow up the Malongo oil * refinery, jointly owned by Gulf Oil Corp. and the state-owned oil concern, Sonangol. The mission: to cause a "considerable economic setback" for the Luanda government. The plant is the largest oil refinery in Angola, processing more than half of the country's crude-oil production. The South African government denied that the commandos were sent to sabotage the facility...
...French composer of some 450 symphonies, operas, quartets, concertos and other works; of an apparent heart attack; in Geneva. Just after World War I, Milhaud became a member of Les Six, an informal group of irreverent young composers. His racy treatment of Brazilian popular songs, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, caused an uproar at its Paris première. La Création du Monde, the 1923 ballet that is perhaps his masterpiece, was the first major classical composition effectively to incorporate elements of jazz. Of Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout World...
...complete works of the Marquis de Sade as "the bible of my early youth." Armed with that perverse testament, he descended on Paris intent on a literary career. It was a time, Sachs recalls, when young men like himself sat on bar stools at Le Boeuf sur le Toit eying the great-Picasso, Cocteau, Milhaud, Satie, Radiguet-like "some Chinese under the Empire viewing the Emperor's sacred Body." Sachs got to know most of the sacred bodies. Cocteau gave him some secretarial work to do, and he repaid his benefactor by painting him as a kind of cultural...
...title story, really a short novel, is somewhat different from the others: it shows what Muriel Spark can accomplish when she forswears the stage properties of the semi-supernatural suspense story and moves her characters about with no strings attached, "he tells the life and death of Daphne du Toit, an enchanting and entirely credible South African girl whose betrayed dreams illuminate a basic Spark theme-the cruelty of reality and the greater cruelty of the illusions that falsify it. (British Author Spark herself spent 6½ years in Southern Rhodesia during World War II, working at "odd jobs, waiting...