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...break came in 1972, when she took time from teaching to audition for the late Thomas Schippers, then conductor of the Cincinnati Symphony; he was looking for a soprano to sing Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem at the Festival of Two Worlds in Spoleto, Italy. Battle got the job and her career snowballed. In 1976 she made her New York City Opera debut as Susanna. The following year, under Levine's aegis, she also bowed at the Met, in the small part of the Shepherd in Wagner's Tannhauser. By 1980 she was effortlessly hitting the high E's as Blonde...
Then, as his peroration, Reagan sought to make universal the contest between democracy and totalitarianism of any sort. "The struggle for freedom is not complete, for much of the world is still cast in totalitarian darkness." Invoking John F. Kennedy's famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" pronouncement of 1963, Reagan continued: "Today freedom-loving people around the world must say, 'I am a Berliner. I am a Jew in a world still threatened by anti- Semitism. I am an Afghan and I am a prisoner of the gulag. I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast...
...first sites to be abandoned by the Israelis in the withdrawal. Sidon's population is preponderantly Sunni Muslim. To the north, the city is flanked by Christian hillside communities, to the south by Shi'ites. Almost in the center of Sidon lies the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el Helweh, with 40,000 inhabitants...
Another prickly issue is the situation in southern Lebanon. Occupying Israeli forces last week flexed their muscles briefly as tanks and troop carriers surrounded the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el Hilweh, near Sidon, in a hunt for weapons and explosives. Two people were injured when Israeli troops opened fire, and a house was destroyed as the Israelis arrested about 30 residents. The camp was also the scene of escalating clashes between supporters of the P.L.O. and Ein el Hilweh's 30-member national guard, a local Palestinian militia organized and armed by the Israelis...
Some refugees are grateful for the aid, while others try to sabotage the relief operation. At Ein el Hilweh, some recently supplied tents have been slashed or set afire, while new sewer pipes and water faucets have been broken or pilfered. "We've made some progress," says Dennis Brown, an American who works for UNRWA. "But it has been a few steps forward, a few steps backward the whole time...