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...light brown imbuia wood paneled Supreme Court chamber in Pretoria's imposing Palace of Justice was crowded with black spectators and white plain-clothes officers last week as Judge Charl Theron entered the room. Guilty of high treason, said Theron, referring to the three young black men in the dock, all members of South Africa's long-banned black liberation organization, the African National Congress (ANC). The sentence: death by hanging...
Look at him now: winner of the Kennedy Center-Friedheim Award for the best orchestral piece of 1980; one of six composers commissioned to write a symphonic work for the Boston Symphony Orchestra's centennial this year; and, this summer, composer-in-residence at the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival in New Mexico. At 42, Harbison is developing a greater depth of ex pression with each new work. His heightening eloquence stamps him as a leader in music's humanistic revival - and has made him one of the hottest composers around...
...years ago? Why is he backpedaling on the undertakings he gave the people of South Africa?" While members of South Africa's ruling National Party shifted uncomfortably in their green leather seats, Colin Eglin of the opposition Progressive Federal Party last week sent his questions ringing across the chamber of Cape Town's Parliament. The angry counterattack from South African Prime Minister P.W. Botha: "I am not a weakling who tries to satisfy everybody. I have my own ideas and pattern for leading South Africa." Some of Botha's ministers have echoed similar pious themes...
...leaders to the White House on Monday to push his program. Executives of GM made calls to Congressmen, and Dow Chemical urged its employees to contact their Representatives. At the heart of the corporate effort was the "No Name Group," a little-known gathering of Washington lobbyists for the Chamber of Commerce and similar business associations. At their weekly breakfast at the Sheraton Carlton Hotel last week, the lobbyists had been supplied by the White House with the names of 43 Democratic Congressmen whose votes might be winnable. No Name was ready. Since the Chamber of Commerce is a presence...
...believe the House banking conferees would sign a budget resolution if that provision was insisted on," Jerry McMurray, an aide to Rep. Fernand J. St. Germain (D-R.I.). chairman of the housing subcommittee of his chamber's banking committee, said yesterday...