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...scheme that tries to divide members of the paper into revolutionary and administration-toadie camps is bound to be wrong far more often than it is right. Aside from one or two permanent polar opposites, most of the political alignments on the paper shift constantly-and leave no real trace for the reading public to follow. As far as I can tell, the people now running the paper are as politically diverse as most classes have been for the last few years...
...said that 50 Israelis had been killed or wounded on Shadwan. The Israelis said that they had lost three killed and six wounded, while killing 19 Egyptians and taking 62 prisoners; they added that two Egyptian torpedo boats-which normally carry 20 men each-had been sunk without a trace of survivors. In the 20-hour attack on the Jordanian badlands the Israelis reported killing five Al-Fatah commandos without suffering any casualties. In Amman, however, estimates of Israeli deaths ranged from twelve...
...Donnell of Philadelphia Community College-are now trying to get reimbursed for the losses, which they estimate at $13,000. The authority is being helpful in its own way. It returned a large pile of torn mattresses, damaged furniture and waterlogged rugs from the city dump. There is no trace of the stereo sets, camera and other valuables that the boys had carefully locked in a separate room of the house...
...that would have done credit to the Budapest String Quartet. Robbie Robertson's main contribution is as a composer of most of the group's songs and lyrics. But onstage he is a sedate figure who vaguely suggests pictures of James Joyce as a young man. With the bare trace of a smile visible under his mustache, his eyes often closed in what seems to be creative ecstasy, he stands punching out notes and laying out funky phrases like "the mathematical guitar genius" Bob Dylan used to say he was. Levon Helm approaches his drums with what is, in rock...
...only characters in this despairing vision who are allowed even a trace of self are a Radcliffe-educated Indian agent (Susan Clark) and the sheriff (Robert Redford) who heads the posse that hunts Willie. But the agent's social concern is only a manifestation of her neuroticism, and the sheriff's primitive feelings of empathy with the fleeing Indian are overcome by ingrained habit...