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While reports that Washington is financing counterrevolutionaries to overthrow the Sandinistas abound, Cardenal says he has seen no evidence of this assistance, though he would be happy to have it. But he believes overt aid will be difficult to obtain in the near future because of the negative way in which the counterrevolutionaries are portrayed by the U.S. media. "We are always called invaders," Cardenal complains. "General de Gaulle wasn't an invader, he was a liberator...
Nestled in a fertile valley 200 miles east of Johannesburg, the village of Driefontein is a picture of rural contentment. Flower beds front its comfortable houses, cattle browse in lush pastures, and fruit trees abound. But Driefontein is different: it is a so-called "black spot," an area of black settlement surrounded mainly by white farmers. For several years, in keeping with South Africa's policy of apartheid, the government has tried to persuade the 7,000 black farmers of Driefontein to move to black "homelands" in the desolate Kangwane and Kwazulu regions. The blacks have bitterly resisted...
Stories of incredible cost overruns on nuclear plants abound. Long Island's Shoreham nuclear-power facility, about 55 miles from Manhattan, is 99% completed, but it is also six years behind schedule and, at $3.2 billion, ten times as costly as planned. It may be at least a year before power begins flowing. When it does, it could be the most expensive commercial electricity ever produced. Long Island Lighting Co. rates, already 60% higher than the U.S. average, could go up by about 40%, to 15? per kwh. But according to the plant's officials, without Shoreham rates...
WITH ALL the rushing around, the acting predictably deteriorates to stylization. Widened eyes and gaping mouths abound Dramatic moments or turning points often fall prey to a sort of lag time, as singers apparently realize several lines too late that they were supposed to change expression; Count Almaviva in Act III, for example, plunges into "Ah, My Joyous Heart Is Flying" with a touching show of grief left over from the previous recitation. The exception to the awkwardness is Hughes, who as Cherubino portrays first a lively teenage boy, then a boy masquerading as a girl, with limitless aplomb...
Actually if one looks back, "turning points" seem to abound in the past half century of German history. From the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in 1933 to the initiation of Chancellor; Brandt's Ostpolitik in 1970. Germans have time and again confronted radical shifts and new beginnings in national policies...