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...Hired Killers." In Menado, the rebels answered that all of their pilots were Indonesians, although some of them were "of Chinese descent." Rebel Colonel Joop Warouw went on to accuse Sukarno of himself employing foreigners, especially Czech pilots who flew against the rebels as "hired killers." He added ominously: "We warn Sukarno that unless all Soviet technicians, advisers and naval officers disguised as merchant-ship captains, leave Indonesia immediately, we will not hesitate to accept open aid from the anti-Communist bloc...
...author of this Candide-like scrap of philosophizing is one Joseph Schweik, private first class in the Czech army during World War I. Cheerful Sad-Sack Schweik first turned up back in the 1920s in Czech Novelist Jaroslav Hasek's antimilitary satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. Last week he popped up on the stage of Manhattan's City Center in the premiere of the late Robert Kurka's operatic version and won a warm welcome from audiences in the New York City Opera's spring season of contemporary American works...
Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, started on the project with Librettist Lewis Allan three years ago, finished the vocal score and 350 pages of orchestration before his death of leukemia last December at the age of 35. His good friend Hershy Kay completed the orchestration from Kurka's red-penciled notes. Loose-jointed and episodic, the opera introduces Schweik (Tenor Norman Kelley) as he is being arrested for "high treason," traces his progress through a scurvy prison and a madhouse, follows him into the army as an orderly. At the end he wanders away from...
Jakobson commented that the charges, which were reported by the Czech news agency, CTK, were "completely invented and utterly fantastic." "I can't imagine what this is all about," he added...
Noting that he had sent "no more than two or three papers" to Czech scholars in the past year, Jakobson stated that the accusations had come as a "complete surprise." In his last visit to Czechoslovakia, he reported, he had been well received, and a lecture which he gave at Prague University had been "warmly reviewed...