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...relations with other ruling Communist parties. In that role, Katushev was instrumental in putting down Alexander Dubcek's "Springtime of Freedom" in Prague and overseeing the "normalization" of Czechoslovakia. Katushev is not brusque and bullying, like Brezhnev, but persistent and demanding. "He is a tough negotiator with a steel-trap mind," reports a Rumanian diplomat who has dealt with...
...mournfully bogged down in a talky self-analysis of considerable pathos. This makes for a jarring discrepancy of mood without any compensating illumination of meaning. Act I is fun and naughty games. In it, Philip ends up in bed with a Venus's-fly-trap of a girl. His fiancée Celia (Jane Asher) pairs up with a cynical aphorist out of early Aldous Huxley. This hedonist with a literate leer acquires luxuriant narcissistic finesse from the performance of Victor Spinetti...
Even worse, though, the plant is not equipped to trap any gas released during reprocessing and over 30,000 curies of gaseous radioactive krypton (K85) are released every month. One curie, fully absorbed, is fatal. With prevailing winds from the west a serious hazard is posed for Buffalo 30 miles to the northeast and for Vermont, which thought its problems had ended when the wastes first left the state...
German Actor Curt Jurgens can enjoy a good many of life's pleasures at his house on the Côte d'Azur-and all at the same time. He need only raise a trap door before his hearth to loll in a red-tiled tub-for-two before a blazing fire, sipping a cup of something, while chatting with guests sitting on fur-covered sofas, and watching his pretty wife Simone whip up a delicious meal. The Jurgens farmhouse is one enormous room, designed for sybaritic simplicity against what Jurgens calls "the inevitable day when there...
Mangrove forests in Vietnam traditionally grow very fast. They trap silt and function to increase land area, extending the shoreline out into the water at a rapid rate. Now, due to American herbicide use, that natural role has been reversed for about half of the forests. The trees are dead and the presence of crabs which eat seedlings insures that new trees will not soon return. Moreover, the major mangrove spraying was done five and six years ago-a major typhoon is likely soon which will probably greatly increase erosion and physically change the coastline and delta regions...