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...poetry conference at which the poet laureate may read, if he wants to. He will not hold the title for life, but only until his term as | consultant to the Library is over. And he will not be expected to produce occasional verse or commemorative odes at anyone's behest. "I would not think of doing such a thing," says Warren...
...attack be acquitted on the technical ground of "insufficient evidence." If the court heeds Marini's advice when it hands down its verdict this month, the result will be a stunning blow to the * "Bulgarian Connection" theory, which maintained that Bulgarian intelligence services organized the papal attack at the behest of the Soviet Union...
...part of a U.S. bid to solve the crisis, Philip Habib, 65, a specially appointed U.S. envoy, late last week flew at President Reagan's behest to Manila. Habib's mission: to find some way of reconciling the opposing Aquino and Marcos political camps. On arrival, the diplomat immediately closeted himself for the weekend with members of the U.S. embassy staff...
...compromise was apparently reached at the not-so-gentle behest of White House Chief of Staff Donald Regan, who felt that the dispute was politically damaging to the Administration. Regan's fiat came after Meese's Justice Department launched a surprise attack in August by submitting a draft of a presidential order that effectively branded Labor Department hiring goals as illegal quotas. The tactic raised such a ruckus that the Justice Department judiciously retreated. Regan then told Meese and Brock to come to an agreement on their dispute before taking it to the President...
This is the imaginary tract that Richard Avedon has now populated. Over a five-year period, at the behest of the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth, Avedon took hundreds of portraits throughout the West. Using an eight-by-ten view camera on a tripod, he photographed people at rodeos in Montana, oil fields in Oklahoma and a "rattlesnake roundup" in Texas. He picked more than 100 of those shots for a traveling exhibition titled "In the American West," which began at the Amon Carter earlier this year and has now opened at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington. A condensed...