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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Golan Heights, the Israelis managed to stop the Syrian forces with antitank guns and ditches. The area was the center of heavy dogfighting as Syrian planes penetrated Israeli airspace, strafing farm villages. Some of the dogfights could be watched clearly by residents of Kiryat Shemona in upper eastern Galilee. In one such clash, a formation of 21 Syrian MIGS was seen heading in the direction of Kiryat Shemona; then one plane fell to earth and shells littered the area...
This built-in disparity may be unavoidable for a writer who insists on dealing at novel length with the highest levels of power. But by limiting his scope to 20 pages or so and by observing Washington at its fascinating upper-middle levels, Ward Just has been able to get his hands on substance that can be worked effectively into fiction. Just's settings are the private office of a moderately important Senator, a routinely luxurious Spring Valley living room, the featureless bachelor apartment of a CIA economist. In these and similar places, a little sex occurs, a little...
...fact, it's precisely non-communist and even non-political people that the Saigon government is most interested in imprisoning. They're the ones that might help to bridge the gap between the Provisional Revolutionary Government and its opponents, or present an alternative to Thieu besides the NLF to upper-class Vietnamese, other Vietnamese anti-communists, and especially the United States, the NLF's most powerful opponent...
...beginning to have second thoughts. Leaders of the moderate Christian Democrat Party, stung because they had been unexpectedly suppressed when the Socialists and Communists were banned, advised their members to serve the junta only as "technicians." The new government, however, appeared to have general support from the middle and upper classes. The truckers, whose 45-day strike was partly responsible for instigating the coup, were on the road again. "Those trucks started up out of pure joy," said one trucker. Copper mines, plagued by work stoppages under Allende, were generally operating smoothly as the junta gave priority to economic recovery...
JEREMY captures young love-its humor and giddiness as well as its melancholy-with wistful affection. Too wistful, in fact. Jeremy (Robby Benson) is a precocious, upper-middle-class New York kid who aspires to be a cellist...