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Drawing on his long experience in the Soviet bureaucracy, Chernenko advocated a clearer separation between the work of the party and that of state and economic organizations. The result, he said, would be less duplication of effort. Said he: "Workers at municipalities, ministries and enterprises do not display the necessary independence, but shift to party bodies the matters that they should handle themselves." If such practices continued, warned Chernenko, they would weaken the party's political role. He reaffirmed that the party's strength must be "its contact with the masses" and "their practical attitude to production matters, to problems...
From Paris to Bonn, from London to Rome, the reaction was immediate: a touch of pique, a dash of perplexity and a pinch of barely controlled anger. "It doesn't help us achieve a clearer under-standing of each other's problems, does it?" asked a British official. A diplomat in Bonn called it "unfortunate, ill tuned and wrong." Said an Italian official: "We were rather surprised. We would like to react, but it is wiser that...
...with parades. The first is always glorious, and the last is usually a little sad. At U.S. sports events, the national anthem is commonly played and generally ignored. But every four years people strain to hear it, and not only does the melody seem improved, but the meaning is clearer in the Alpine air. It is fun to sing to the mountaintops. ?By Tom Callahan. Reported by Jamie Murphy/New York and B.J. Phillips with the U.S. figure-skating team, with other bureaus
...world is currently waiting for a true Siegfried to climb the Valkyrie rock and rescue productions of Wagner's Ring cycle from the efforts of overstrained tenors, but the air is clearer at the higher vocal elevations. In Hildegard Behrens and Eva Marlon, both in their early 40s, there are two formidable sopranos who between them may rule the dramatic repertory for at least the next decade. Not since the heyday of Birgit Nilsson, now 67 and retired from the opera stage, has there been a singer who dominated the German roles and triumphed in dramatic Italian parts...
...with an uneasy feeling I wasn't taking advantage of things in the best way." At first, she says, she was a bit overwhelmed by the options thrown at her by OCS-OCL. Hennessey then focused on finding something that would be "personally meaningful, and perhaps give [her] a clearer direction in life...