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...supports tuition tax credits for parents of private school students (estimated five-year cost: $3 billion), an idea that appeals to Roman Catholic voters. Reagan came into office promising wholesale deregulation of business, yet his Administration has dawdled where the heavily regulated trucking industry is concerned. The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the only major labor union to back Reagan, is strongly opposed to trucking deregulation...
...Come to the River is set to an original text by British Playwright Edward Bond. The principal themes-the evils of fascism and the brotherhood of the masses-are ones that Henze has previously explored in such vocal works as the Essay on Pigs (1968) and El Cimarrón (1969-70), written in Cuba. "New museums, opera houses and premieres are not necessary," Henze declared in 1967. "What is necessary is. . . the greatest work of art of mankind: the world revolution...
...this the center, then? An international Woodstock? "The Olympic flame is the only hope for brotherhood, understanding and dialogue," says Juan Antonio Samaranch, president of the International Olympic Committee. What else would he say? "The Olympics are the only times in the history of the world when so many nations come together in one spot in an association of friendship," says Charles Palmer, president of the British Olympic Association. Vested interest. According to Kurthan Fisek, a professor of public management from the University of Ankara, "No single institution in the entire history of mankind has been able to equate itself...
...estimate, Soviet Ambassador Anatoli Dobrynin, 64, has performed rites over the carcasses of 2,500 cold salmon sacrificed in the search for world brotherhood. The salmon were nibbled into oblivion, but Dobrynin goes on, a monument to cunning and a thoroughly disciplined alimentary canal...
...fulsome, more-than-photographic detail of the latter. The time is long past when hard-core modernists, secure in their belief that nearly everything England produced between the death of Turner and the arrival of Roger Fry was either hopelessly sentimental or irredeemably quaint, assigned the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood to the dustbin of history. Presumably it will not be long before some canvas by William Holman Hunt or John Everett Millais, the kind one might have got 30 years ago for ?500, becomes the first Pre-Raphaelite picture to fetch a million in the auction room...