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...dollar would slump still lower suddenly raised serious doubt that the government could hold the line without exhausting the exchange fund altogether-and confronted it with a tricky political choice. Rather than let the challenging Liberals moan about the run on the dollar, the Tory government boldly decided to flee to the pegged rate (backed if necessary by the resources...
...attractive clubs, such as Moscow's Aelita, where young people can sip soft drinks or wine and dance to Dixieland. The snag: Komsomol (Young Communist League) trusties at the door see that only the faithful get in. Young Russians yearn for spring, when they can flee jampacked apartments for the parks. Although Russia is generally a pristine society, on dance floors young couples often lock themselves in a pelvic polka that makes the twist look like a minuet...
...while, public outrage mounts. In the north coast town of Puerto Plata last week, news spread that two former Trujillo secret police agents were about to flee to Haiti aboard a Dominican freighter. Before long an angry crowd had gathered at the dock, hurling stones at the ship, screaming for the pair to be handed over. An army unit arrived, took the men from the ship to the local garrison. The mob followed, still protesting, and the soldiers reacted in familiar Dominican fashion-a burst of machine-gun fire killed one man and wounded three. Next day, in the city...
...Perichole, a trapdoor opens slowly onstage; from the depths of a subterranean dungeon emerges a doddering old prisoner. He has been digging through various walls for twelve years, and now he is ready to escape. He lasts no more than four minutes onstage before he is forced to flee through the trap again. But to Offenbach fans at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, the sequence is one of the comic highpoints of the evening. The man responsible: Italian-born Tenor Alessio de Paolis (pronounced: Pow-o-lees), 64, who in a quarter-century at the Met has sung some...
Until October, the sewer route worked perfectly. But the Vopos spotted a group trying to flee, tossed tear-gas bombs down the manhole, and reportedly wired all East-West sewers with burglar alarms and microphones. Abruptly, the Travel Bureau was put out of business. Not until last week, when disclosure of the abandoned underground railway no longer mattered, was its existence revealed. By then, the bureau's 50 voluntary agents were back at more conventional studies, reunited in the West with the 600 lucky clients who had successfully completed the Travel Bureau's exclusive tours...