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...quest to give Argentina a greater international profile, President Carlos Menem may be sailing into troubled waters. Last week two missile- bearing Argentine frigates departed to join the forces in the Persian Gulf. Menem, who is of Syrian descent, dispatched the vessels even though the help was not requested. "Argentina, long considered not serious or reliable, will slowly change its image," he declared. A poll indicates that 70% of his fellow citizens oppose the move, which ironically places Argentina in alliance with Britain, its enemy in the 1982 Falklands...
...much disappeared as given way to discussions about fresh shortages of eggs and butter; well-founded fears of forthcoming scarcity in supplies of potatoes, vegetables and fuel; anxious predictions of riots in coming months. The nation's leaders openly allude to a possible breakdown of authority and descent into anarchy...
Edmund Valentine White III was born 50 years ago in Cincinnati to a father who was a chemical engineer and a mother who was a psychologist for retarded children. He is the seventh Valentine in the White descent. His older sister Margaret Fleming, a psychotherapist, recalls that even as a small boy her brother was different: "Like most kids I was a conformist, but not Ed. I didn't understand him then and probably tortured him a lot . . . Today he's my hero. When my parents divorced, he was only seven, and he took it very hard. He became...
...Stael's paint always betokens light, even -- perhaps especially -- when, like Braque's, it is black. It shows its descent from the noble directness of touch in Manet. And there is a vast appetite for the world in it. One could wish that this show had included a few more of the paintings De Stael did of soccer players -- heraldic yet energetic blocks of primary color, moving on the floodlit field of the Parc des Princes outside Paris -- for they are the summa of his love of the physical. "On grass that is either red or blue," he wrote...
...disparaging comments from corps crusaders who feel it has not done enough to recruit minorities -- although 106 of the first crop of trainees are African American, Hispanic or Asian American. "The program needs to be more diverse," insists Richard Rivera, 22, a Syracuse graduate of Puerto Rican descent...