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...begins. One day last week the first visitor was Ambassador to Saudi Arabia John West. Then Vance discussed arms-limitation issues with SALT Negotiator Paul Warnke; Leslie Gelb, director of the Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs; Legal Adviser Herb Hansell, and Nimetz. Next in order came Dutch Foreign Minister Christoph van der Klaauw, CBS Correspondent Richard Hottelet, and a White House meeting on SALT between the President and Brzezinski. A 5 p.m. trip to Andrews Air Force Base to meet Rumanian President Nicolae Ceau?escu concluded a typical business day. He manages to get home most evenings...
...capturing the pair, Gert Richard Schneider, 28, and Christoph Michael Wackernagel, 26, a former movie actor who is the video expert for the Red Army gang, the Dutch had managed a feat that has so far eluded a whole army of German policemen. After Schleyer's body was found in the trunk of an abandoned car last month, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt ordered up his country's biggest postwar man hunt to track down the 16 Red Army gang members suspected of involvement in kidnaping and murder. Some 80,000 policemen have been thrown into the search...
...Christoph Bertram, director of London's International Institute of Strategic Studies, the address was "a very important statement of long-term intent." Whether that intent can be translated into a less dangerous world, one in which human liberties will be enhanced, is not at all certain...
...cheers that are sweeping the Paris Opera mark the triumph of this spring's new sensation: Christoph Willibald Gluck's Alceste. They mark the triumph too of the "reformers" who are determined to abolish the exaggerated trills and cadenzas of the Italian stage. Writes Britain's Charles Burney, author of the erudite new General history of Music: "The chevalier Gluck is simplifying music . . . He tries all he can to keep his music chaste." Retorts popular Librettist Pietro Metastasio: Gluck is a composer of "surprising fire...
...idiomatic performance that drew the most from Egk's acrobatic orchestral score and made the blues passages seem natural, less like interludes. As Jeanne, Newcomer Barbara Hendricks from Little Rock, Ark., displayed a ravishing lyric soprano voice. Karl Brock not only handled the rigorous tenor lead role of Christoph with a convincing mixture of despair and bravado but also produced a splendid English translation of Egk's German libretto...