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...first attempt, in 1960, went beyond all permissible bounds in its Coney Island hodgepodge of a production. It did better in 1966, and still better in 1974. Taken as a whole, the current version is as good as the third. Even if one disagrees with some of Freedman's initial decisions, one must admit that the result is a smooth and elegant production. Not many of the players and staff have worked at the AST before, and Freedman was probably wise to bring in a considerable roster of people with whom he had worked elsewhere. With one major exception...
...fired on Syrian soldiers, who initially retreated rather than get involved in pitched battles. Boasting about their "victories over the Syrian occupation," the Phalangists last month attacked the resort village of Ehden, killing Franjieh's son Tony, his wife and daughter and 30 other people in a bold attempt to seize control of a sector of Lebanon near the seaport of Tripoli that had traditionally been dominated by the former President...
...Phalangist and National Liberal militiamen. The heaviest fire was concentrated on East Beirut, where both Gemayel's and Chamoun's headquarters went up in flames. "This is genocide against the Christians of Lebanon," protested Chamoun. Lebanese Foreign Minister Fuad Butros rushed to Damascus in a vain attempt to arrange a ceasefire. But Syria's tough Defense Minister Mustafa Tlas responded: "The Syrian army will strike with an iron fist to destroy the Phalangist and Chamounist gangs." Asserted Radio Damascus: "Syria is impartial. We fight lawless elements within the Christian community just as we fought the Palestinians...
This is not to say that Miller will succeed. He and Carter are engaged in the trickiest and riskiest of all economic maneuvers: an attempt to slow a surging but vulnerable economy just enough so that inflation gradually subsides, but not so much as to sink the nation into a recession. Administration officials refer to this as guiding the economy to a "soft landing" from its too-rapid pace in the quarter just ended. Estimates of production growth in the second quarter cluster around an annual rate of 9%. Miller prefers to talk of reaching a "sustainable path of growth...
Well, the all-star break is over, the American League choked again, and it's back to business as usual for the major-league leading Red Sox. This weekend, the Sox will attempt to demolish some Western Division teams, having kicked ass in the East for the past month. The Texas Rangers will be in town tonight, followed by the Minnesota Twins on Saturday and Sunday afternoons. Sunday's game will be on Channel 38, we think, at 2. buit since the Twins, with the exception of Rod Carew, are so bad, this might be your best shot at actually...