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About 50 protesters were arrested at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington after they unfurled banners to protestthe opening of an exhibit featuring the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima 50 years ago and brought World War II to an end. Eight people unfurled banners from the second floor balcony above the main entrance to the museum, some shouting, "Never again! Never again!" They also threw pamphlets down at people entering the museum. Smithsonian Secretary Michael Heyman revised the exhibit -- which originally included graphic depictions of the damage and deaths caused...
...Carolina, where in 1977 Menotti founded an American counterpart to his annual Spoleto Festival in Italy. Two years ago, Menotti resigned in a huff after a petulant, embarrassing two-year power struggle with the festival's board and management. First the board insisted on including an avant-garde art exhibit Menotti opposed, then it rejected Menotti's chosen successor, his adopted son Francis. When Spoleto Festival USA announced a shortened season and a $1.7 million deficit last year, there were fears it might not long survive its mercurial founder...
These complaints are recorded in the meeting minutes, which have been filed as an exhibit in the former lecturer's law suit at Middlesex Superior Court...
...exhibit in her complaint is a November 1993letter to her attorney from the department'schair, Witzel in which Witzel apologized forBenson's "uncollegial, disruptive, and defamatoryoccurrences...
RESIGNED. MARTIN HARWIT, 64, head of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum; in Washington. Harwit fell victim to the controversy over a planned exhibition of the Enola Gay, the plane that dropped the first atom bomb. Outraged veterans believed the exhibit would have been too sympathetic to Japanese views of World...