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Baer gave "Memnon" a competent if unremarkable reading, but was immediately captivating and wonderful in "Der Wanderer." Though hindered by an unfortunate entry of the brass and Robert Fanta's heavy-handed orchestration, he communicated the song's vast unrest perfectly, and ended in just the right whisper...
DIED. LAURENS VAN DER POST, 90, South African-born conservationist acclaimed for his books on Africa; in London. Best-selling author of The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958), he was Prince Charles' guide to alternative life-styles and non-Christian religions...
...price of the $5 admission to the reading equals the monthly salary for a college professor in Armenia due to the blockade by Turkey, said Diana Der-Hovanessian, president of the New England Poetry Club...
...revelations were stunning enough last week when South Africa's former chief of police admitted to his role in two notorious acts of sabotage. First, General Johan van der Merwe confessed to giving orders in 1988 to blow up the Johannesburg headquarters of the South African Council of Churches, a blast that injured 23 people. He also admitted that he ordered his men to infiltrate a ring of antiapartheid activists and provide them with booby-trapped hand grenades, which exploded as soon as the pins were pulled. But then Van der Merwe offered an even more startling disclosure, turning...
...der Merwe's statements before Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Truth and Reconciliation Commission marked a turning point in the process of seeking redress for the brutality suffered by millions of South Africans during apartheid's kragdadigheid ("ironfistedness"). Set up by President Nelson Mandela last year, the commission has heard mainly from victims. But while many of their stories were moving, the inquiry was perceived as largely feckless, unable to tie the crimes to perpetrators, black or white, on either side of apartheid. Despite offers of amnesty, alleged culprits refused to confess because they were convinced they could get a better...