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MIDDLE EAST. After lengthy discussion, the two sides will merely agree to disagree. Neither the U.S. nor the Soviet Union wants to see war erupt in the area. But Russia is not willing to put pressure on the Arabs. It wants...
...veteran's grasp of what the annual free-for-all called the National Basketball Association play-offs is all about. He proved it in last week's showdown game with the Boston Celtics, when a flash fight between Knick Bill Bradley and Celtic Don Nelson threatened to erupt into a bench-clearing slugfest. Meminger, the smallest man on the floor, quickly stepped in front of Boston's Dave Cowens, the 6-ft. 9-in. center with flaming red hair and a temper to match, and said: "Cool it. Let's not anybody get hurt or jeopardize...
Thus Robert Schumann in his 1831 review introduced the young Polish composer Frederic Chopin. Chopin was a romanticist who detested the very word; Bach and Mozart were his gods. Nonetheless, the romantic volcano that he triggered continues to erupt over a century after his death. To many concertgoers, a great pianist still means a great Chopin pianist, and if the recent spate of Chopin recordings is an indication, the artists agree. Some of the best...
...small-scale fighting, including assassinations and other terror tactics, to continue, how ever, as both sides pursue their conflicting goals. Even more privately, high U.S. officials, while professing outward optimism, fear that once the U.S. has completely pulled out of Viet Nam, open warfare on a larger scale might erupt once again...
...battle for which the President is girding himself will surely erupt, and promptly. His spending hold-downs, by their very diversity, promise to unite against his policy a startlingly broad coalition of interest groups. They range from the unemployed poor to school librarians, and from farmers to executives of construction firms that will get less business building subsidized housing and hospitals. Members of the Senate Republican Policy Committee met with Vice President Agnew last week and voiced loud protests against the withholding of funds for programs that benefit the traditionally Republican farmers...