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...Dragon. Yevgeny Schwarz's allegory about dictatorship in the Soviet Union in 1943. A nice fairy tale, with a happy ending. Worth seeing, but don't plan to do anything afterwards--it's three hours long. At Currier House May 6-8 at 8 p.m. Tickets $1.75 at Holyoke Center...
Returning to the throne from which his grandfather, Alfonso XIII, was ousted in 1931, Juan Carlos at 38 has the dual task of dismantling nearly four decades of dictatorship while attempting to establish his own legitimacy as chief of state. Unlike his Bourbon ancestors, of whom Talleyrand said, "They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing," Juan Carlos proved a retentive student during his years as monarch-in-waiting...
...Dragon. Evgeny Shvarts's classic (?) of underground Soviet drama, an allegory of dictatorship written in 1943. Performed by the students of Slavic 147, "Russian Drama." At the Loeb Ex, April 29-May 1 at 7:30 p.m. Free. At Currier House, May 6-8, at 8 p.m. Tickets for the Currier House performances are $1.75 at Holyoke Center...
...mean feat considering the country's 8.5 million population. That the campaign was under way at all was a measure of the changes wrought in the past five months. Until the abortive left-wing coup last November, Portugal frequently seemed on the verge of a Communist dictatorship. That danger has now virtually disappeared...
With balloting set for April 25, the second anniversary of the "revolution of flowers" that overturned the right-wing dictatorship of Marcello Caetano, no fewer than 14 political parties are competing for the 263 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. Apart from the radical fringe-Trotskyites and quasi anarchists on the left, monarchists on the right-it is not always easy to tell the parties apart. As one diplomat observed: "Socialism in its various forms, reverence to the Armed Forces Movement, the eradication of social injustice-those are like an American's apple...