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When a sewage purification plant in the town of Saint-Raphael overloaded, effluent poured into the sea, yet authorities were unable to keep campers out of the water despite an overpowering stench. Tourist officials claim that most beaches are safe for bathing, but the French monthly magazine Science et vie reports that health officials have found 649 cases of "negligible" pollution, 361 cases of the "medium" variety and 23 cases of "strong pollution" at 138 Mediterranean locations, among them Antibes, Cannes and Nice...
...week, "not again!" The South African newspaper had good reason for its dismay. In the same Port Elizabeth police building where Political Activist Stephen Biko was held for four days last September before his highly suspicious death from a supposedly self-inflicted bump on the head (TIME, Sept. 26 et seq.), another black prisoner died under curious circumstances. According to police, the prisoner leaped without warning to his death through an open fifth-floor window during a security police interrogation. When announcing the incident, Minister of Justice James T. Kruger declared: "The fact is that it's very difficult...
Laser Magic--Future City. Cool if you're in the mood, or can get yourself in the mood for a laser son et lumiere spectacular. Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science, Friday at 9:30, 10:45, Saturday...
Saturday, May 6: Concert: Schneider Spring Jam with Encore, Hypertension, Elegna, Tommy Campbell, et al. Jazz, rhythm and blues, Schneider Mainstage, 11 am-midnight...
Tribute is a rich play, not brilliant but solid. The characters who surround the protagonist--his sympathetic ex-wife, tolerant, devoted doctor, et al--are stock, but Slade fuses each of them with life. As a one-time writer of sit-coms (over 100, it is reported), he must have learned how to play around with stereotypes, searching for that one little crack of humanity in which to insert his fingers, opening the character up. Scottie's business partner, for example, is a huggable, Jewish, Lou Jacobi-type (warmly played by A. Larry Haines), the character who kids in plays...