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...however, will have to start lining up support fairly soon; the party central committee gathers in the spring to nominate Labor's next standardbearer. By then, Rabin may well find himself on the defensive, blamed not only for Israel's 35% inflation and the mushrooming Yadlin scan dal but also for failing to involve party functionaries in his administration. Ultimately, there is a chance that neither Rabin nor Peres will emerge victorious. Their fratricidal rivalry could split the Labor Party so badly that it will lose popular support at the polls and the backing of some...
...separate tours to Australia, both led by experts, to see an eclipse in early October. For the mystic-minded, a Meditation tour-80 true believers led by Cleveland-born Guru Alice Christiansen-took off last week for Srinagar in Kashmir, there to spend five weeks aboard houseboats on polluted Dal Lake. Mike Kong of New York City is selling an unwrapped package for nudists titled "Vacations in the Buff" (in the Caribbean), which, according to his office, has been designed to attract "the more sophisticated traveler, anxious to try a new experience, something more casual." The variety is unending...
...Dal Poggetto began wondering whether he could devise some alternative entry through one of the chapel's other doors. There are eight in all, two on each wall, but four of them are blank. A sealed door leads to the adjacent Church of San Lorenzo, and the last two open into small unused rooms on either side of the altar (Michelangelo called them lavamani, or washrooms). One of these lavamani had traces of various 16th century sketches under its old whitewash. The other had a trap door in its floor leading to a long, narrow storeroom. Perhaps, Dal Poggetto...
Cutthroat Foiled. But what were the drawings doing in that narrow chamber? Dal Poggetto has a theory. In 1527 the Medici, who had virtually become kings, were expelled from Florence by a wave of republican sentiment. When the Medici resumed their grip on the city in 1530, a purge of republicans followed, and a cutthroat named Alessandro Corsini was hired to murder Michelangelo-who had vocally sided with the republican cause. According to an old tradition, the great sculptor, who was then at work on the Medici tombs, hid in the bell tower of a church on the other side...
Only one problem now remains for Dal Poggetto. Since the general public cannot be let into the storeroom containing the drawings (the space is too confined, the risk of damage too large), he will have to find yet another exit-corridor from the Medici tombs. And for the moment, there seems to be none...