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...career devoted to self-effacement, and conducted in Cincinnati, naturally leads to the question, Who is Ken Anderson? All football fans remember that he comes from an unlikely Lutheran institution in Rock Island, Ill., "little-known Augustana College" (in footballese, adjective and noun are welded together, as in "wartorn Middle East"). Also little known is the general opinion that if N.F.L. computers were programmed to construct the ideal quarterback, they would spit out Kenny Anderson. He is strong, quick (4.8 sec. over 40 yds.), with outstanding peripheral vision and, at 6 ft. 3 in., tall enough to throw over...
More than two years after the Soviet-backed Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia (Kampuchea), Hanoi's puppet regime, led by Heng Samrin, is firmly installed in Phnom-Penh and has restored a measure of order to the wartorn, famine-stricken country. Even so, stubborn resistance continues in the countryside, spearheaded by the Khmer Rouge, the fighting force of the ousted Pol Pot regime. An estimated 40,000 strong, the Khmer guerrillas have managed to hang on to crucial sanctuaries with the help of substantial political and military aid from Viet Nam's hostile neighbor to the north, the People...
...CONSOLIDATION of Communist control and rebuilding the wartorn country were Mao's top priorities after the 1949 defeat of the Nationalists. A totalitarian society emerged as the Communists gained control of almost every aspect of political, economic, cultural and even family life. The private economic sector was eliminated: banks, industry and trade were nationalized; forced collectivization of the farms cost the lives of at least 1 million landlords and other "enemies of the people." A five-year plan supported by Soviet loans and technical aid emphasized heavy industry...
...civil war against Sallal's republicans and the 40,000 Egyptian troops allied with them. Now Saud ridicules the royalists as "conceited fellows," denounces Feisal, who gives them supplies, as "an imperialist." Before departing from Yemen, he grandly donated $1,000,000 to Sallal for reconstruction of the wartorn capital...
...trials of unthroned royalty seems a banal topic, but Anastasia might have had possibilities, especially in a portrayal of the renewal of a wartorn psyche. Instead, Marcelle Maurette has choosen to emphasize the pure romance of the story and, even worse, clouds the romance with her allegorical reflections. For this reason, Anastasia is dramatic, but, on the whole, not worth the trouble...