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...military would grow restless: Army Minister Leonidas Pires Gon(pi202)alves told the press that "the Brazilian army will comply exactly with what is prescribed in the constitution." Political leaders of all persuasions pledged their support to Sarney, and the 548-member Congress kept up business as usual. Said Chamber of Deputies President Ulysses Guimaraes: "The republic is not on holiday, nor is it in recess...
DIED. Roger Sessions, 88, influential, uncompromising composer of reconditely complex orchestral, chamber and vocal works; in Princeton, N.J. Revered by fellow musicians, Sessions adapted such modernist techniques as Stravinskian neoclassicism and Schoenbergian serialism to his individual style, allowing lyricism and emotional color to come through the bursts and layers of sound. Almost all his works, however, are dense, dissonant and difficult both to perform and to listen to, with the result that some compositions waited years for premieres; among his best-known and least inaccessible works were his score for The Black Maskers (1923) and Symphony...
...carry on the campaign. Reagan, they feel, must agree to defense cuts and take the lead in restraining the huge increases in Social Security and health-care costs. Otherwise, little if anything will get done. The Roundtable has launched a million-dollar effort to rally public support. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce exhorted its members last week to keep the pressure on the Government to cut spending. And when the Republican Senate leadership went to the White House last Friday, the Senators added their weight to the growing pressure for help from the Oval Office...
...room rated at least a footnote in history: in this modest, comfortably decorated chamber at the Soviet mission in Geneva, much of the negotiating had taken place before the 1979 SALT II agreement. It seemed a fitting place to step into after the warm if formal greeting offered last week by Victor Karpov, the chief Soviet negotiator for a new round of arms talks, to his U.S. counterparts, Max Kampelman, John Tower and Maynard Glitman. Before Karpov waved the Americans in, he said to Kampelman, the leader: "I hope that our meeting will not be the last...
Three years after an almost indistinguishable proposal met overwhelming opposition in the faculty chamber, only half a dozen professors rose to challenge Ozment's logic. His idea's time had come...