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...Beristain and Dawn Ades, have brought together a mass of Dali's juvenilia, starting at age 12; the show ends in 1929, with Dali in Paris, moving through storms of controversy, the 25-year-old darling of both Left and Right Banks. By rights this show ought to contain the "classics" of Dali's early achievement -- paintings from 1929 like The Lugubrious Game and The Great Masturbator. But these could not be borrowed, and so the early Dali story loses much of its climax...
...company's initial sortie into the mountainous jungle that surrounds Lake Kutubu, one of the most pristine spots in the South Pacific. The year was 1986; Chevron headed a consortium that had come to explore a reservoir 1.5 miles beneath the jungle floor that was thought to contain 225 million bbl. of high-quality...
...hook smokers, took another big hit. FDA Commissioner David Kessler told a House health subcommittee that the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp. developed and grew a high-nicotine tobacco plant and used it in several of its brands. CEO Thomas Sandefur contended that cigarettes made using the plant did not contain more nicotine. Meanwhile, the Justice Department announced its own investigation of tobacco-industry practices -- including the question of whether tobacco executives misled Congress...
...Security Council rallied around French plans to send mercy-mission troops into Rwanda, following several days of international jitters. Most members of the 15-nation Council -- including the United States -- are now content to let France try to contain the slaughter until 5,500 U.N. reinforcements can arrive. But all sides within Rwanda worry about further bloodshed. Tutsis, who now control two-thirds of the country, especially hate the French for aiding what they consider a genocidal government in 1990. They call the French move "an act of war." While such threats chill the rest of Europe, TIME Paris bureau...
...About 18 lbs. (8 kg.) of this enriched plutonium is needed to produce one fission bomb. The rods now contain enough material to make four or five bombs...