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...southern Africa drama. Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada regularly threatens to dispatch a "suicide battalion" to Rhodesia or South Africa; so far, however, Amin has limited the Libyan pilots who fly his Soviet-supplied MIGs to making practice bombing runs on an island in Lake Victoria that he has renamed "Cape Town...
...reader of the World Almanac knows, disasters are usually ranked solely according to the number of lives lost. Writing in The Professional Geographer, Geography Professor Harold D. Foster at British Columbia's University of Victoria suggests that this kind of ranking is simplistic because it fails to take into account the psychological stress and environmental damage that survivors must cope with...
Museum Piece. The initiation rite carries the cachet of having been quilled in the 17th century by the Earl of Rochester (Tynan unearthed parts of it in the archives of the Victoria and Albert Museum). Other notable contributors include 19th century French Symbolist Poet Paul Verlaine, French Playwright Eugene Ionesco and Tynan himself. As director, Tynan chose another Calcutta alumnus, Clifford Williams, formerly of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...clinic will offer a two-pronged (bivalent) vaccine to elderly and chronically ill patients later this month, a shot that should protect against both swine flu and the more prosaic Victoria-A. About two weeks later doctors at UHS will recommend that the rest of us line up for our shots--bivalent, if there's any left, or else monovalent (swine flu only). The clinic's policy of recommending the vaccine to everyone over 18 is in line with federal policy...
...Dixiecrat, Thurmond carried four Deep South states. He switched to the Republican Party in 1968, and later became an architect of Richard Nixon's 1972 "Southern strategy." Today he eagerly displays to visitors in his office a two-page list of "accomplishments in behalf of blacks." Items: "Assisted Mrs. Victoria DeLee in expediting day-care funds for Dorchester County"; "Cosponsored bill to find a cure for sickle-cell anemia...