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...most high schools last month. He was equally bland about the activities of the Damascus-based Eritrean Liberation Front, which is fighting to establish a separate Eritrean state in northern Ethiopia. In the past six months, the front has hijacked three Ethiopian Airlines planes and kidnaped (briefly) the U.S. consul general in the northern city of Asmara...
Major Charles D. Westcott, the American consul in Paris, reported to Washington that he had received copies of the letter and the secret minutes in the summer of 1924-a few months before the American elections...
...most moving musical drama to come out of America since the natives of Catfish Row tangled with Porgy and Bess back in 1935. The post-Porgy years have offered little in the way of challenge. There are Gian-Carlo Menotti's works, including The Medium, The Consul, The Saint of Bleecker Street, Help, Help, the Globolinks. Also Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe, Robert Ward's The Crucible and Floyd's Susannah. But on the whole, American opera has been lacking as much in quality as in quantity...
...persuaded him to help them. The tall blond officers who showed up in Cherbourg to take over the boats-and who were mistaken by some Frenchmen for Norwegians-were also Israelis. The Oslo address was just that-a post-office box and nothing more. Said Panama's consul general in France, Jorge Royo: "It was a beautiful piece of corporate legerdemain...
Found Objects. Born in Stockholm 40 years ago, he grew up in Chicago, where his father was Swedish consul general. "I lived a private, shy life," Oldenburg says, "built around an imaginary country I invented, called Neubern, located in the southern Atlantic." By the age of 16, he was spending a lot of time in burlesque houses. "Talking to the dancers," he recalls, "you found beauty in extremely negative things, because there was nothing else." After four years at Yale and a brief period as a police reporter, he committed himself to art. "I had always thought I would...