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...country's future. When Chief Justice Bora Laskin began to read, there was a moment of confusion. A special sound system failed, and his words were barely audible to a nationwide television audience. But the impact of his message was clear enough. At the end of a five-month courtroom fight between the federal government of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and eight of his country's ten provinces,* the court had come down on both sides, prolonging once again a 54-year struggle over power sharing that at times has threatened to tear apart Canada...
...credit, the Carazo government recently succeeded in ending a a five-month wave of terrorism conducted by a group of leftist guerrillas who call themselves the "family." Now the government must see to it that the rising inflation, unemployment, food shortages and the incipient bankruptcy of 250 businesses do not lead to the sorts of civil disorders and revolution that are plaguing the country's neighbors. Luckily for Carazo, he is a lameduck President whose term will expire in May 1982. With elections set for next February, the likely winner is Luis Alberto Monge Alvarez, 55, a portly politician...
Today the land around Patallacta is powder-dry and barren. Fifteen families barely scratch a living from the soil, and almost nothing can be grown for the entire five-month dry season. How, then, did this unforgiving land once provide for so many people? The answer is etched into the granite hills around the valley: dozens of stone canals snake their way down from glacier-fed streams in the upper altitudes...
DIED. Giuseppe Pella, 79, Italian economist who rose from sharecropper's son to the premiership, and who helped guide his country's economic policy for nearly three decades; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rome. Resolutely antiCommunist, Pella served as Premier during a critical five-month period in 1953-54 when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry...
...coins, earrings as huge as civilizations-all aglow like ideas in the gray, composed rooms of Washington's National Gallery of Art. The exhibition of Macedonian and Hellenistic art-paid for in part by Time Inc. -is called "The Search for Alexander." It opened last week for a five-month run at the National Gallery, after which it will travel for two years to museums in Chicago, Boston, San Francisco and New York. It is less a show than an essay...