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Sweden's latest political crisis came to a head when Fälldin called in opposition Social Democratic leaders for routine discussions of the government's tax-reform program. During an all-night session late last month, a negotiator for Fälldin unexpectedly agreed to Social Democratic demands that a proposed 50% limit in taxes on income earned after wages be delayed until 1983. He also agreed to reduce by 50% the deductions that high-income property owners could claim for interest payments. The surprise deal angered Gösta Bohman, leader of the coalition...
...tougher. The most vocal protest on campus from non-minority students has centered on rather parochial issues. In fact, a student group named GUERILLA achieved its most effective demonstration early in exam period, when it organized a "study-in" at Lamont, managing within a few days to gain an all-night study area--the Greenhouse Cafe...
...fragmented world of the exhibition is not our world; we clump through it like dinosaurs. For one thing, theirs was a time of simple weapons and elaborate drinking cups. Ours is the reverse. For another, we see death as sleep, and they saw it as an eternal feast, an all-night bash. In short, the ancients would have recognized the code of a Gordon Liddy. But what are most of us to make of a time when war required no explanations or apologies, when generals fought in the middle of their troops, and when it was almost reasonable...
Davidson based his story on reports that included battlefield dispatches by Correspondent Adam Zagorin and Cairo Bureau Chief William Drozdiak. Zagorin, who is based in Beirut, flew to Amman and set out on a grueling all-night bus trip across the Jordanian desert to Baghdad. He helped cover the 1977 border skirmishes between Egypt and Libya for U.P.I., "But this was my first look at direct air attacks," says Zagorin. "It was a sobering and frightening experience." Meanwhile, Drozdiak was on his way back to Cairo from a four-day conference of Islamic ministers in Fez, Morocco, when the fighting...
...film Black Orpheus; of a lung ailment; in Rio de Janeiro. Moraes served in Brazil's diplomatic corps until the country's puritanical military bosses fired him for his "vagabond" ways, which included nine marriages. In his later years he was a fixture at Rio's all-night cafés and clubs, where he sang for his supper the bossa nova and samba tunes he helped to make world-famous...