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...perhaps the final act by a leader West Germans had celebrated as der Macher (the Doer). Schmidt has played a key role in steering the nation to unprecedented prosperity and international respect during his 30 years in politics, eight of them as Chancellor. True to form, in one swift, decisive action Schmidt had moved to break West Germany's festering political crisis and shouldered the responsibility of bringing about the collapse of his own government. In so doing, he paved the way for his probable replacement by Christian Democratic Opposition Leader Helmut Kohl...
...routine by-election in Germiston, a working-class suburb of Johannesburg, should have been a shoo-in for Prime Minister Pieter W. Botha's National Party. Instead, Flip van der Walt, 63, barely won, carrying the district by a mere 308 of the 9,111 ballots cast. The vote reflects deep, corrosive divisions among South African whites over the country's future direction. The Rand Daily Mail judged the outcome the nation's "biggest electoral shock since 1948," when the National Party swept to power under the banner of white supremacy...
...designer for the Folies-Bergère, the Ziegfeld Follies, George White's Scandals and the illustrator of every Harper's Bazaar cover from 1915 to 1936, Erte continues today to work in his Paris home, creating his fine-lined, Beardsley-esque drawings; only last June, Der Rosenkavalier, featuring his sets and costumes, was performed at England's Glyndebourne Opera Festival. And at the time of his 90th birthday in November, the artist will be honored with major retrospectives in five U.S. cities. Even at his age, Erte can write such future dates in his appointment book...
...have been satisfied, or so Washington hoped. That was the Israeli Prime Minister's insistence on an "unequivocal commitment" from the P.L.O. to evacuate its 6,000 guerrillas, who are sealed off in West Beirut along with 500,000 residents of the city. Indeed, negotiations were already un der way between Habib, the Lebanese government and the P.L.O. to devise a formula for relocating the guerrillas and their families to Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Jordan...
There is some adventure to be found. Summer is often the season for the offbeat in opera. The enterprising Santa Fe Opera will present the world premiere of American Composer George Rochberg's The Confidence Man this week, and is staging Strauss's rare Die Liebe der Danae as well; the Opera Theater of St. Louis in June presented the premiere of Stephen Paulus' ambitious The Postman Always Rings Twice, which it commissioned, and unearthed Prokofiev's youthful one-act shocker Maddalena...