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Although some slow progress has been made by UNITA forces toward Teixeira de Sousa and Henrique de Carvalho (see map page 17), the military sit uation on the ground remained relative ly unchanged last week. Despite Soviet military aid and the help of 7,500 Cu bans, the M.P.L.A. holds only about a quarter of the country. But State De partment officials concede that Neto's leftist government has a big lead over the other two factions not only in fire power but in organization and experi ence. Assessing the three groups, one U.S. diplomat observes: "The M.P.L.A...
...know what Mike Nichols says about you? "Other playwrights in his sit uation would buy plenty of clothes, go to a lot of parties and elect themselves Man of the Year. This one goes back to work." Listen, Marvin-I can call you Marvin...
Panama last week found itself in the embarrassing position of having two Presidents. One was Marco Aurelio Robles, 62, the country's duly elected chief of state for the past four years; the other was Max Delvalle, 57, Robles' First Vice President. This tricky sit uation was brought about by the opposition-dominated National Assembly, which, seizing on an obscure clause in the country's constitution, accused Ro bles of giving illegal support to a can didate in the upcoming May 12 elec tions. Early in the week, the Assembly voted to oust Robles from office...
...sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows how Simon and Nichols can take a sit uation no bigger than a snowball and dislodge an avalanche of hilarity...
Princeten-bred Wylie's article, which appeared in the December issue of a uation-wide woman's magazine, struck a final blow by insisting that a girl at college "loses four of the years that are biologically best for bearing children...