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...North Koreans over loudspeakers along the 151-mile Demilitarized Zone that divides the two countries. The same rumors popped up independently in Peking, Hanoi and Tokyo, apparently before officials in Seoul began spreading the word. Until Kim's ceremonial airport appearance, the North Koreans did nothing either to dispel or confirm the story. Little could be made of their unresponsiveness: in one of the world's most hermetically sealed societies, official silence is the rule rather than the exception...
...National Gallery of Art in Washington has filled it, persuasively, radiantly and definitively, with a show of 171 paintings done by Matisse in his early Nice years, assembled by Art Historians Jack Cowart and Dominique Fourcade. It should dispel any lingering suspicion that between 1916 and 1930, even average Matisses got as complacent as most Renoirs. Indeed, some of Matisse's greatest work was done in those years. Why was this acknowledged so grudgingly, or not at all? For "ideological reasons," Co-Curator Fourcade argues, springing from a "modernist obsession" with Matisse's largely posthumous role as prophet of Paris...
Another reason for dissatisfaction with the Zakharov/Daniloff arrangement is that it does nothing to dispel the suspicion that U.S. reporters may be spies. In Moscow on Saturday, a Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman insisted again that Daniloff was a CIA agent who has been spying for years and that proof of this had been furnished to the U.S. Yet in 1977 the CIA adopted a directive forbidding the employment of journalists (or clergymen or academics) as agents or giving journalistic "cover" to real agents. It is still in force. Though no one can say flatly that journalists never...
...sesquitercentenary was conceived as a "family affair," Stephenson says. A public party on the Charles, a folk concert, and other aspects of the 350th labeled as vacuous and glitzy were attempts, he says, to make Harvard's celebration accessible to a broad audience. According to Stephenson, the celebration should dispel such criticism...
...perceptible easing of hostilities between the sister cities has helped dispel the East Berlin reputation for gloominess. The process of normalization was set in motion in the early 1980s by Richard von Weizsacker, who was then West Berlin's mayor and is today West Germany's Federal President. Von Weizsacker became the first West Berlin mayor to meet with Erich Honecker, East Germany's Communist Party leader. Small signs of cooperation began to emerge on areas of mutual concern like waste disposal and pollution. Although the almost daily contacts are still conducted on an unofficial basis, the numbing silence...