Word: center
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Delegates who checked the wire-service tickers in the press room of Belgrade's imposing new $30 million conference center could glean what the minister had in mind. On the conference's opening day, prisoners in Soviet camps and jails in Perm, Mordovia and Vladimir, east of Moscow, sought to draw attention to their plight by going on hunger strikes. In various Communist and Western countries, demonstrators organized protests or stood in silent vigil in support of human rights. When 15 women from nine countries appeared in Belgrade to demonstrate on behalf of Soviet Jews, the Yugoslav security...
...average of three times monthly, a Soviet Tu-16 "Badger" reconnaissance jet roars off from the world's largest military base, just outside Murmansk, and heads westward to probe Norway's air defenses. Alerted by radar, a vast ultramodern command center in the craggy mountain range of northern Norway scrambles two Norwegian Royal Air Force F-104G Starfighters. The fighters usually intercept the Badger within a few minutes; one of them hangs off the Soviet craft's tail, while the other flies just ahead of its nose. The lead Norwegian Starfighter will then waggle its wings...
Most others would describe it as a retreat. Though Papp has raised his box office receipts at Lincoln Center to a current high of nearly $4 million, costs have risen alarmingly; this season's budget was $6.2 million, up more than a third from last season. Foundation and government support, on which Papp's ventures have always depended, has been shrinking. He has managed to cover his Lincoln Center deficits only by using the Broadway profits of his phenomenally successful A Chorus Line, which started off as an innovative musical in Papp's downtown Public Theater...
...figures tell only half the story. Papp was never happy at Lincoln Center. He has always been at his best working with new playwrights, and he gave a start to a new generation of young writers-David Rabe, Jason Miller, David Rudkin-who would not have been let in the front door by more profit-minded producers. The classics-with the exception of Shakespeare-make Papp nervous. He never felt at home with Lincoln Center audiences, who demanded at least some older plays to balance the new. Said Papp last week: "I feel I cannot grow at Lincoln Center...
Papp's decision caught Lincoln Center officials off guard, and for the moment they have no plans beyond a search for other producers. They may not be easy to find. Papp is the second tenant to fail at the Vivian Beaumont. "This is a sort of bad-luck house," says Bernard Gersten, his associate producer. "It has not yet worked for anybody. I hope it will...