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Troilus (Nick Davis). Hector's younger brother and puppy-dog adulator, is distracted from the more sanguinary, duties of war by the lovely Cressida (Laurie Galluccio). vigil daughter of a Trojan defector. After much hemming and hawing, the two innocents manage to get together with a little help from Cressida's uncle Pandarus (Nick Lawrence) only to discover that a Greco-Trojan conference committee has decided that Cressida must be turned over to enemy camp in exchange for a Trojan prisoner-of-war. Thus, the play ends with Troilus and Cressida cursing the Gods on Mount Olympus, Pandarus cursing himself...
...rejecting a role for market forces and independent decision making, is both the system's political backbone and its crippling weakness. The chief beneficiaries of overcentralization are the nomenklatura, the 750,000 to 1 million members of the bureaucratic elite at the upper reaches of the system. Says Soviet Defector Michael Voslensky, whose 1984 book Nomenklatura: The Soviet Ruling Class described that bureaucratic layer: "All the key positions of the state, cultural, trade, sport, the military, down to the local collective leaders, include members of the nomenklatura . . . It is a class system 100% based on holding a monopoly of every...
...Billie Jean King and Chris Evert Lloyd protective of their memories. It would be appropriate to say that Martina has played the competition off its feet, except that she is the only powerful woman tennis player who really leaves her feet, a smasher with an underrated delicateness. The Czech defector does not insist that she is the greatest, as Muhammad Ali would say, of all time, though she believes so. "America gave me the opportunity to play the best tennis any woman ever played, which I think I have done the past few years. Excuse me if that sounds like...
...casualties that were returned last July. The U.S., which has accused Viet Nam of hoarding American dead for diplomatic leverage, possesses one five-year-old intelligence report that says about 400 bodies of American servicemen were stored in a Hanoi warehouse. The source of the report is a Vietnamese defector who worked as an undertaker on U.S. war dead in Hanoi. The Vietnamese have denounced these allegations as "slanderous." Conjectures about Viet Nam's maneuvering, however, were underscored last July when a U.S. military delegation traveled to Hanoi to collect the remains of the M.I.A.s. At the time, a Vietnamese...
...offers its readers a bonus: an advance look at the memoirs of historic figures. Nikita Khrushchev, Anwar Sadat, Henry Kissinger and Jimmy Carter are among the world leaders whose books have been excerpted in the magazine. The current selection is something of a break with tradition: the author, Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko, was virtually unknown outside diplomatic and political circles. Only with the sensational revelations in his new book, Breaking with Moscow, does he emerge from the shadowy world of superpower espionage. Last week's eleven-page excerpt carried Shevchenko's insights on Kremlin personalities and intrigues of the 1950s...