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...huge. China's gross national product was only $373 billion in 1977, compared to $1.889 trillion for the U.S. The Chinese per capita income was a lamentable $378. A generator plant in Harbin uses lathes, punch presses and milling machines that were built two and three decades ago in Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Soviet Union. Japan builds 94 cars per worker per year; in China the comparable figures are one car, one worker. Steel, the essential building component for heavy industry, is regarded as a precious metal in China. The production goal for 1985 is 60 million tons; last...
Rumania's President and party boss Nicolae Ceauşescu has long defied Moscow in foreign policy matters. His is the only Warsaw Pact country that did; not break relations with Israel after the 1967 war, did not join in the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia and does not allow, a Soviet military presence on its soil. Ceauşescu has cultivated ties with Peking and has endorsed the U.S.-sponsored Middle East negotiations...
...international reputation. Along with Noyce and talented Realist Fred Schepisi (The Devil's Play ground, Jimmy Blacksmith), Weir forms a nucleus of directorial talent that could do for Australia what the New Wave did for France in the '50s and the Prague Film School graduates did for Czechoslovakia in the '60s ? make it at least an aes thetic force to be reckoned with on the world's screens...
Down came the technological slogans in the square of Brno, Czechoslovakia (pop. 365,000). Up went huge posters of an intense-looking, white-haired man who could be a commanding commissar but who, in Brno at least, is more venerated than any socialist leader: Czech Composer Leoš Janáček. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of its composer's death and the 125th of his birth, Brno has opened a yearlong Janacek celebration, beginning with 27 musical events in a two-week-long gala festival. Students, soldiers and scores of foreign scholars jammed six concert halls...
Much of the talent was from Czechoslovakia: the Brno State Theater, which originally staged most of Janáček's operas; the Brno State Philharmonic; the Czech Philharmonic; scores of folk singers and choirs. The Czech Philharmonic, one of the grander Old World orchestras, offered a smoothed-out, spruced-up version of the composer's music, while the more regional Brno orchestra left the burr in Janáček's rough edges. Lacking singers of international caliber, the Brno ensemble fared poorly in such star vehicles as The Makropoulos Affair. But Mr. Brou...