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...recalls Beckett, and the inchoate sense of menace parallels Pinter. The candor of the final confessional between the brothers is Fugard's own. At Yale, as in the original, Fugard has directed and plays the half-derelict, fair-skinned brother. At the outset he seems fragile, ineffectual, on the border of madness. As the narrative focuses on the implications of his relative whiteness, he gathers strength and wisdom. Zakes Mokae, a 1982 Tony Award winner for Master Harold, engagingly re-creates his original performance as the darker, earthier, more mercurial and in the end more freely dreaming brother. The actors...
...Zhang Aiping, 75, though widely credited with having helped to modernize the armed forces, was dropped from the Central Committee, leading to speculation that he might soon lose his government post as well. Among other military retirees was Zhang Zhixiu, 67, former commander of Chinese forces along the Vietnamese border. Zhang had reportedly been eager to teach the Hanoi government, a bitter enemy of Peking, a military "lesson," which China had attempted less than successfully in 1979. Zhang was overruled by Deng, who was said to have feared that the general was developing a "mountain-stronghold mentality," a tendency...
Given the initial communications void, there was no way of knowing how many casualties had occurred in Mexico's rural areas. But scattered damage was reported from the coastal states of Colima, Guerrero, Jalisco and Michoacan. These were close to the epicenter, which geologists located offshore near the border between Michoacan and Guerrero, some 200 miles southwest of Mexico City. Fortunately, the affected states are sparsely populated, and their rocky underpinnings provided some resistance to the tremors. Still, at least 150 people were reported killed in Jalisco and 30 in Michoacan, where two hotels were leveled at the resort...
While the short stories are considerably more readable than the poetry (some of them even border on interesting), none of them contains anything so recognizable as a plot, a conclusion, or even a point...
Honduran President Roberto Suazo Cordova, after hearing of the attack, recalled his ambassador from Managua and put the armed forces on general alert along the 500-mile border with Nicaragua. Having conferred with U.S. Ambassador John Ferch, Suazo Cordova said the army would "use all necessary measures to repel the aggression." Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega Saavedra called the Honduran attack an "invasion" and blamed...