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...musical hit of the international theater season. A colorful satiric pageant about the political and romantic gamesmanship attending a world chess championship, the show has won raves from European critics for Lyricist Tim Rice (Jesus Christ Superstar, Evita), Composers Benny Andersson and Bjorn Ulvaeus (of the Swedish pop quartet ABBA) and the piece's star, Elaine Paige. Chess has spun off two top-of-the-pops singles: the ballad I Know Him So Well resided at No. 1 in Britain for four weeks, and the insinuating disco rap One Night in Bangkok is a Top Five smash in half...
...policeman of Lebanon," a role that has led to 610 Israeli deaths in the past 31 months and cost the economically strapped government / about $600,000 a day. The move was a popular one: in some recent polls, nine out of ten Israelis have favored a withdrawal. Said Abba Eban, chairman of the Knesset's defense and foreign affairs committee: "Everyone wants...
...others: Congress: We the People, a 26-part examination of the nation's legislative process; The New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers; and The Write Bourse, which teaches basic writing skills. Another new PBS series, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, an impressively mounted survey of Jewish history with Abba Eban as host, is not related to the Annenberg/CPB Project, but is also designed as a college telecourse. Toother these shows form a video curriculum that is more varied, stimulating and accessible than anything yet seen on American...
...them as citizens, the country will become a Jewish-Palestinian state, erasing its heritage as the Jewish homeland. "When you think of this situation in the light of Jewish history and the struggle of Jews for equality of right and status, the paradox becomes agonizing," says former Foreign Minister Abba Eban...
Despite these dramatic alterations in the international arena, the ways in which nations interact with each other, the basic methods of intercourse, have remained surprisingly constant. As former Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban argues convincingly in his book The New Diplomacy, the only true novelty in international relations is the increase in number of nations involved...