Word: ars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Control. Croatia's Communist leaders, most notably Dr. Savka Dabčević-Kučar, the brilliant woman economist who for the past three years has served as chairman of the Central Committee, seemed either incapable or unwilling to halt the separatist agitation. In fact, some observers suggested that committee members secretly welcomed the agitation since it forced the Belgrade leaders to grant even more concessions to Croatia...
They took the hint. Two days later, in an unusual televised session of the Croatian Central Committee, seven ranking leaders, including Dr. Dabčević-Kučar, confessed their shortcomings and handed in their resignations. At Tito's behest, one of his old associates from partisan days agreed to supervise the rebuilding of the Croatian party. He is Vladimir Bakarić, 59, who is a member of the Executive Bureau in Belgrade, which is the party's equivalent of a collective federal presidency. He favors greater economic and political autonomy for Croatia but within the framework...
...would become an issue in some units and between various groups within the Army." What is more, although the youth pictured in the Ayer ad looks well trimmed by contemporary standards, the circular emphasizes that he "does not repeat does not illustrate a soldier meeting the standards set by AR 600-20." The offending ad will soon be dropped "because of the possible misinterpretation that the Army is more permissive-which it is not-and that the Army condones long, unkempt hair-which it does...
...IATA representatives in Montreal this summer while pickets protested their secret meetings, came after members began underpricing each other with youth fares. It calls for retention of the student prices for ages 12 to 21 and introduction of an advance-purchase excursion plan. Under APEX, as the ar rangement is called, passengers who buy their tickets 90 days ahead of time would receive substantial fare reductions. Lufthansa considered APEX to be "too expensive to administer and too difficult to police," as one official of the German line put it. "We're against overcomplicating the situation." Nevertheless...
Acoustic Research Contemporary Music Project (Deutsche Grammophon, 6 LPs; $2 each). The makers of AR loudspeakers and other audio equipment are offering records devoted to 16 American composers largely ignored so far by the record-industry majors. Especially worthwhile are Milton Babbitt's Philomel, for soprano (Bethany Beardslee) and synthesized sound, and an airily atonalistic set of madrigals by Pulitzer Prizewinner George Crumb. The records are available by mail from AR, Inc., 24 Thorndike St., Cambridge, Mass.02141...