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...Kwame Nkrumah relished the plush life that power can buy. The self-styled redeemer of Ghana nearly bankrupted his country by building palatial hotels, modernistic palaces and a cozy hideaway for his favorite mistress. Even after he was overthrown last February, it seemed likely that Nkrumah would continue to wield power and enjoy life as few exiles ever had. Guinea's President Sekou Touré gave Nkrumah a hero's welcome and startled the world by proclaiming that the visitor was coPresident. Said Touré: "Nkrumah belongs to all Africa, not just Ghana. His voice and my voice...
Unlike the fight against the French, whom he took on largely within what is now North Viet Nam, Giap today must wage war by remote control, with every foot of the long line of command under potential attack day and night. He must wield the most cumbersome logistical system since Hannibal brought his elephants over the Alps, winding down through the mountains and jungles of Laos and Cambodia. Captured diaries of infiltrators tell harrowing tales of the journey. Marchers carry 70-lb. packs up 40° slopes, cope with insects, snakes, mud, hunger, disease and even, occasionally, the attacks...
Significantly, Heath retained Reginald Maudling as Deputy Opposition Leader and added to his stock by giving him the Commonwealth and Colonies shadow portfolio. That gives Maudling responsibility for Rhodesia-a fulcrum that any oppositionist should be able to wield to advantage. If Heath and Maudling together can put the full weight of Tory leadership into the opposition, Wilson's plump majority could be thinned in ensuing by-elections. If not, Heath might well be supplanted by Maudling as the Conservatives' leader...
...wanted Major General Abdel Aziz Uqaili, Iraq's Defense Minister, who favors an all-out war to exterminate Iraq's rebellious Kurdish minority. The Cabinet wanted Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz, who would slow state socialism. Favoring neither aim, Nasser wanted neither man. With Amer on hand to wield Egypt's influence, the Iraqis finally settled on Aref...
...Carnovsky's Lear is an old man who recognizes his age too late. His rages are desperate graspings for the authority he can no longer wield over his daughters or his kingdom. When he finally realizes his true state, when he sees "how wretches feel," he is calm; but it is a tragic, disquieting calm. Since he lacks power to implement them, his compassion and his forgiveness to Cordelia serve only to pain him. In the final scene, deep in grief over Cordelia's death, Carnovsky distractedly twines his hair. It knots, like the hair of Poor Tom the Bedlam...