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...world is deteriorating morally, and if there is a chance of doing something beautiful, I want to do it," said Singer Joan Baez of her determination to give a Christmas Eve concert in front of Paris' Cathedral of Notre Dame. But doing something très belle can be très difficile in France, Baez found. To arrange her hour-long concert, to be attended by 50,000 and televised on both sides of the Atlantic, she spent four years negotiating with Paris' city hall, archdiocese and police. "In the end they were genuinely excited about...
...hesitate to show his own support. Within hours of the Sandinista victory, he began sending Cubans to work in Nicaragua as doctors, teachers, engineers and military advisers. Today they total more than 2,000. But Nicaragua does not seem to be turning into a docile Cuban appendage. Says William Baez, director of a private enterprise group: "The government wants to go to some kind of socialist situation, but they don't want another Cuba...
...After just a few months at Brigham Young, she hitched northeast to Minnesota and got a job as a short-order cook in a joint where she could sing when business was slow. She dyed her sandy hair black, put on some weight and tried to sing like Joan Baez. "I sang foul, I looked foul," she says. Her folks found her and brought her home...
Folk Singer Joan Baez sang Oh Freedom. Civil Rights Leader Bayard Rustin led a rousing chorus of We Shall Overcome. Elie Wiesel, author of many books on the Holocaust, recited Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead. Actress Liv Ullmann gave a pint of blood for Cambodian refugees...
...Joan Baez sang at benefit concerts in Paris and Washington. Abie Nathan, known for his efforts on behalf of Arab-Jewish amity, sent food packages from Thailand. While governments debated how to cope with Cambodia's crisis, official agencies, religious and private organizations, and concerned individuals were at work to aid the catastrophe's victims...