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...Cabinet is composed of 16 Christian Democrats, six representatives from the small Social Democratic and Liberal parties, plus two unaffiliated technocrats. For parliamentary survival, it will have to depend on nothing more solid than the grudging abstention of Bettino Craxi's unpredictable Socialists. It will also have to contend with the opposition of Enrico Berlinguer's still powerful Communists. As a result, Cossiga hardly is in a position to make major decisions to deal with Italy's daunting problems of 15% inflation, 7% unemployment and nearly chronic terrorism...
...story-adapted from two plays by German Pre-Expressionist Frank Wedekind-unfolds in swift, biting scenes (given fine clarity by Arthur Jacobs' translation). The mysterious Lulu is a dancer, an amoral enchantress, perhaps a force of nature. She first rises through society, then falls disastrously, as lovers contend for her elusive soul and all too accessible body. Throughout the opera, a large portrait of her hangs onstage-one of Berg's many specifications that were sometimes ignored in the past...
...best waves, of course, are found in Hawaii. But experts contend that Florida in the wintertime approaches Hawaii in excellence and argue that San Francisco Bay is "the Aspen" of wind-surfing because of its challenging winds and strong waves. Other highly touted places include the mountain lakes of the Sierras, Buzzards Bay off Cape Cod, the Gulf Coast of Texas, the Great Lakes and the lakes of Minnesota...
...damage to the peace process." Some State Department officials were pleased with the letter, but there was no public comment from the Administration; it feared that hard-line elements in the Begin government would counterattack with charges of American manipulation of "Jewish family matters." The Israeli Premier must already contend with the fact that both Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Defense Minister Ezer Weizman disagreed with the Cabinet's approval of the settlement that inspired the letter...
...dispersed over an area 4,000 miles long and 100 miles wide, a scattering that the scientists call, with anthropomorphic archness, Skylab's "footprint." Moreover, on each of Skylab's 90-minute orbits of the earth, nearly 67 minutes, or 75%, is spent over water. What all that means, contend NASA'S statisticians, is that the chance of any remnant striking a human being is only 1 in 152; the probability of any specific person being struck is 1 in 600 billion?far less than the chance of being hit by a bolt of lightning or winning a lottery...