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...solidify his new alliance with the Soviet Union. Mengistu and Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny signed a declaration laying the "foundations for friendship and cooperation"-diplomatic sugar-coating on Moscow's agreement last December to supply Ethiopia with $100 million in arms. Moscow had good reason to show such benign feelings: Mengistu last month expelled all American military advisers, communications experts and information officials on the ground that the U.S. had helped the late Emperor "suppress the liberation struggle of the oppressed masses" (TIME...
...Benign Magic. The result of these efforts requires patience from a modern audience. There is relatively little dancing in this version, and it seems tame. After Balanchine, one expects this immortal bird to fly in the open grand jetés Makarova does like lightning. Instead, she uses a gentler jump that resembles a small arc or, less politely, a hop. For her prince (Ivan Nagy), there is no dancing at all. Audiences of an earlier time enjoyed a pageantry that now seems static, however pleasing the tableaux...
There are some rewards for those willing to enter Fokine's world of benign magic. The firebird has a taste for the golden apples that grow in an enchanted grove. She is caught in the act of munching one (Makarova actually does a few steps with a gilded ball in her teeth) by the prince, who, like any right-minded nobleman in Russian ballet, is out hunting. In exchange for her freedom, she gives him a feather that will bring her and her supernatural powers to his side in time of trouble. She knows there will be an emergency soon...
...breast. With characteristic directness, Rosalynn, 49, wanted an immediate answer as to how serious it was. Captain William Fouty, the surgeon who directed the removal of Betty Ford's cancerous right breast, ordered the lump removed, under a local anesthetic. The laboratory report showed the growth to be benign, and Rosalynn headed happily home. The next morning, word came that the First Lady was "in great spirits." She even took her regular Spanish lesson and popped over to the Kennedy Center to attend a lecture on the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler -just as though nothing whatsoever had happened...
...tangible future; and from the community's past...into foreseeable and imaginable realities of work accomplishment and role satisfaction," then there may be disadvantages to having a secure sense of self...in a broader perspective one has to question whether he has not put too much trust in the benign functions of the social order...