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Large ballet, musical and opera companies--which used to bypass Boston--are planning performances in the newly renovated Metropolitan Center...
From exile in Cambridge, Aquino has quietly urged Marcos to consider lifting martial law and open the door to conciliation before being swamped in a wave of revolution. Prior to last week's incident. Marcos--who had allowed Aquino out of the country for a triple bypass heart operation, primarily because he could not afford to let Aquino die in prison and become a martyr--responded cautiously, trying to keep his clasp on power while waiting out the results of the presidential election. The president put out feelers, realizing a compromise with Aquino provided at least a chance to salvage...
...pilgrimage was a small but stunning triumph over the dislocations of war and the sectarian antagonisms of the Middle East. To begin with, the buses were supplied by Israel's implacable foe Iran, which must have needed the vehicles for the war effort back home. Forced to bypass Iraq, which provides the most direct route to Jordan, the drivers headed north to Turkey. There they were delayed for a week because the border was closed. Finally allowed to pass through Turkey, they were held up for four more days by the Syrians. As Iranians in a hostile Arab world...
Aquino, 48, probably would have won the 1973 election in the Philippines--had it been held. Instead, he continued to languish in jail, until Marcos finally let him out of the country this summer to undergo a triple bypass operation in the United States. He has now landed at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA), where he has spent time convalescing, pondering his country's future and "meeting all the people who wrote the books" he read during his lengthy incarceration...
...year-old Aquino was in New York yesterday. He received medical treatment in Dallas, reportedly for a heart bypass operation, and then traveled to San Francisco. But Peter Stanley, dean of Carleton College and a leading expert on the Philippines, said yesterday that since Aquino was active for his age, "it is at least possible that the official medical reports should not be taken at face value...