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...return of a state collection of ancient bones to the aborigines. And earlier this year, native Australians prevented two aboriginal skulls, each more than 10,000 years old, from being sent to an exhibit of human evolution at the Museum of Natural History in New York. Declares Lawyer Jim Berg, an aborigine who has been a leader of the campaign for native rights: "We don't dig up white people's cemeteries, so why should they be allowed to dig up ours...
...reevaluate, re-interpret or otherwise revise even the most pedigreed plays and operas. Bizet's Carmen cut to four singers and 82 minutes to recapture the gritty spirit of Mérimée's novella? Peter Brook undertook the radical surgery three years ago in Paris. Berg's Wozzeck set in a 19th century insane asylum? That was Hans Neugebauer and Achim Freyer's novel perspective in a Cologne production revived last season. Maxim Gorky's Summer Folk implausibly wed to a selection of Gershwin songs and renamed Hang On to Me? Peter Sellars...
...glare of national attention has fallen on these belligerent broadcasters since the murder last month of one of their number, Denver's Alan Berg, who was shot down in the driveway of his condominium. When Denver police assigned 60 officers to investigate Berg's killing, it was an acknowledgment of the hostility his combative style had provoked among his estimated 200,000 listeners. So many officers were needed, said one, partly because Berg's audience provided so many potential suspects. Threats and sometimes violence are indeed an occupational hazard. Ex-Washington Radio Talker Gary D. Gilbert...
...Berg's killing has also added a nasty twist to an ongoing ratings war in Miami, where six news/talk shows crowd the air, four in English, two in Spanish. Soon after Berg's death, Tom Leykis of WNWS told his listeners the real name of a popular, less vitriolic competitor who works at a rival station under the pseudonym Neil Rogers, and urged them to call and harass him. "Rogers," who received death threats in 1980 for his opposition to the arrival of the Cuban boat people, believes that Leykis was enabling listeners to attack...
...Berg, a onetime Chicago trial lawyer, earned influential friends and an estimated audience of 200,000 during the decade he dominated the Denver radio scene with his attention-grabbing, listener-baiting style. Said he: "I stick it to the audience and they love it." The morning after Berg's death a steady stream of mourners filed slowly past his rented condominium. Fans telephoned Berg's KOA outlet from some 30 states. Callers were comforted by KOA disc jockeys sobbing their way through their own shows. A blind man was led to Berg's garage door so that...