An armed conflict between Hua Kuo-feng’s supporters and elements of the “gang of four” in Kunshan County, Kiangsu Province, ended with about 200 killed in mid-November, according to an intelligence report reaching Taipei Dec. 14.

Whitney is absorbed especially by Dublin's unglamorous interstitial zones: the new housing estates and labyrinths of roads, watercourses and railways where the city peters into its commuter belt.

The vocabulary is also that of the common people […]. There is but one Church Slavicism: во вратѣхъ.

[T]here we were, quarrelling and making up, sober and tipsy, starving and guttling by turns, just as ma got money or spent it.