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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HOMECOMING, by Harold Pinter, pits the strength of five men v. the power of one woman. Who conquers and exploits whom is the question. The answer depends on each man's interpretation. The Royal Shakespeare Company's production, directed by Peter Hall, is properly tense and intense...
...forces in the South. Were the bombing to end, U.S. casualties would almost certainly increase, and Johnson would find himself in an indefensible political position. As it is, American losses* for the week ending March 4 were the highest of the war: 232 dead, 1,381 wounded, four missing (v. 1,736 Communist dead, at least twice as many wounded...
Getting Together. Not that The Haight-Ashbury Utopia needs any new source of supply. Narcotics arrests in the district last year more than trebled (from 148 in 1965 to 485 in 1966). A "lid" (22 grams) of marijuana sells for $10 (v. $25 in New York City) and a 100 microgram "tab" of LSD can be had for $4. Some pot peddlers even pass out supermarket-style trading stamps with each purchase. Apart from narcotics arrests, however, the crime rate shows no drastic escalation. During a January "Human Be-In" at Golden Gate Park, 10,000 hippies turned...
...Onganía also promised to hold down the country's soaring cost of living (up 30% in 1966) and to impose some belt tightening and other much needed reforms on the country. To give his program some grandeur, he even borrowed Charles de Gaulle's slogan: "Vérité et sévérité." "I demand truth and austerity," said Onganía. "We need austerity everywhere...
...Uncle v. Nephew. Though he is a great-grandson of the Mahdi whose howling hordes overran General "Chinese" Gordon at Khartoum in 1885, Sadik has shown himself to be a man of tolerance. In 1965 he worked closely with Mahgoub in banning the Communist Party because a Sudanese Communist had made a slanderous remark about the wife of the Prophet Mohammed. But within his own Umma Party, the young Mahdi speaks for religious toleration for the south. His chief rival within the Umma is his uncle, Imam Hadi el Mahdi, 47, who advocates a tougher policy toward the rebels...