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They came from Ireland and Iceland, Italy and India, Bulgaria and Ghana and Egypt and Brazil. The 350 emissaries represented newspapers and magazines, theaters and festivals, production companies, agencies and television networks. They saw a dozen new or unknown plays in three days in late March, not on Broadway or in London's West End, but in Louisville. Lately, that modest Kentucky city has become a part-time international theater capital, the site of perhaps the most important annual showcase for emerging American playwrights. In the nine years of the Humana Festival at Actors Theater of Louisville, many works have...
Ironically, the Swiss findings appear to cast some doubt on the Italian case. According to Agca, Celik should have had access to 3 million deutsche marks (then worth about $1.3 million) allegedly paid to the conspirators on behalf of the government of Bulgaria a week in advance of the abortive assassination attempt. Says Giuseppe Consolo, an attorney for Bulgarian Sergei Antonov, one of the accused conspirators: "It seems very strange that Oral Celik is engaged in small-scale smuggling in Switzerland when he is supposed to have been hired by the Bulgarians to kill the Pope and has 3 million...
Agca has testified that he and Celik began as terrorists by undertaking a variety of political crimes for pay. Though their primary ties were to the Gray Wolves, a right-wing Turkish terrorist organization, they apparently had no particular ideological motive. Agca claims that Celik was in Sofia, Bulgaria, when the plot to kill the Pope was hatched during July and August of 1980. Italian court documents allege that Celik "actively cooperated in the crucial stages of the planning, final agreement and execution of the attempt on the Pontiff." It was Celik, according to Agca, who purchased four Browning...
...Shriver ousted sixth-seeded Manuela Maleeva of Bulgaria and number seven Zina Garrison Stopped west Germany's Sylvia Hanika in first-round matches of the $500.000 Virginia Slims Tennis championships last night...
Where is this "very European creativity" you tell us about? Why do you say it is "inaccessible to American audiences?" Let me tell you, brother, these two Europeans are wondering. What part of Europe is this Monsieur Wilson from, Bulgaria? This play, it would be no hit in Europe...