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...Englishman wandered familiarly through the members' smoking room, the green-carpeted corridors of the Commons and its stone-flagged lobbies. But although he was duly elected to Parliament from South-East Bristol in 1950 and returned three times since, Anthony Wedgwood Benn, 35, dared not enter the Commons chamber last week. The reason: upon the death of his father, Tony Wedgwood Benn had become the second Viscount Stansgate. As a peer, he was ineligible to sit in the House of Commons...
...Like the emirs themselves, Abubakar started off with the fear that in a unified Nigeria the backward North itself would be swamped by the vigorous, better educated South. "Nigerian unity," he told the assembly, "is only a British intention for the country. It is artificial, and ends outside this chamber...
With growing troubles at home, the Cuban government showed its unease by relaxing for the moment its word war with the U.S. President Osvaldo Dorticós, a reliable echo chamber for Castro, spoke about repairing relations with the U.S. Castro himself struck an unaccustomed note: "Perhaps by temperament many of us like battle more than tranquil life. Nevertheless when we have on our shoulders a responsibility like we have today, we strive to be above all passions." Brother Raul chimed in: "It is not our desire to be at war. One day we will see these weapons converted into...
...contemporary U.S. composers, Carter (now 51) appears in a work of characteristic complexity and charm. After a series of opening sonorities that explode on the ear, the sonata evolves into a dialogue between the harpsichord-querulous and spidery-and the other members of Carter's oddly assorted chamber group. For all its skirmishing, the sonata has no trouble finding its witty way home...
...delivers advisory opinions to U.N. bodies-serves as a reminder of the existence of international law and of the hope that it may one day rule the world. And when the court's 15 judges, resplendent in black robes and white jabots, assemble in their chamber in The Hague's Palace of Peace, they represent the world's legal conscience. Named last week by the U.N. General Assembly to join this select circle were six replacements for retiring judges. Most notable newcomers...