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...nightmare world being enacted is not only ancient Greece but also the courtly France of 1667, where Jean Racine wrote his tragedy Andromaque, and the skinhead London of 1988, whose coarse argot has been chosen by Director Jonathan Miller to lend contemporary clout. The melange of cultures does not always work, although much else does in this hurtling two-hour, no- intermission staging. Yet Miller's production, which opened last week at London's Old Vic Theater, is an event of considerably broader consequence than a re-examination of an austere and little-produced play by one of the theater...
Arafat is trying to climb back into control. He is uniquely positioned to do so, since the P.L.O. is still the only organization in the territories with the money and clout to respond to the Palestinians' needs. The P.L.O. has sent dozens of radio and telephone messages to its friends inside the territories urging them to join in the unrest. P.L.O. officials say they have provided food, medical equipment and money to the inhabitants of the Gaza refugee camps, though camp residents deny it. "The P.L.O. is the only institution these people can go to when they're in trouble...
...intentions of those who created this monster were honorable. Since the beginning of this century, progressives have fought for primaries as the most representative way of choosing the delegates who would select the party's ticket. What evolved was a mixed system. Candidates who needed to prove their electoral clout or show strength in a certain region could enter a few well-chosen primaries; those with established reputations generally would ignore them. The real decisions were made by back-room coalitions assembled at the convention. John Kennedy, for example, entered the West Virginia primary to prove he could...
...Democratic leadership, aware for years that the post-1968 reforms were flawed, has continued to tinker. But despite a consensus that the calendar had to be made more rational, no one could control ) the "nomination window" in either party. States resentful of Iowa's and New Hampshire's clout have moved up their contests to create "front-loading," a jumble of primaries and caucuses in the first month of action. Front-loading enhances the importance of doing well in the first two major competitions. Voters in the second and third rounds, having seen little of the candidates, have only...
...Hanoi government, begin in teeming Saigon. Arriving there in the "high season" -- the relatively dry period from November to May -- can pose a few logistical problems. Travelers from the Soviet Union and East bloc countries, seeking a winter refuge, come in droves. As current allies, they have the clout to book the downtown hotels, while Americans are often relegated to the Tan Binh, a tedious, hour-long pedicab ride from downtown's central market. Among the scant diversions of the place: tasty, small loaves of French bread, pint bottles of dreadful Vietnamese vodka and a nearby tennis club...