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...assassins rounded up 16 Arab convention delegates as hostages-among them, ironically, two P.L.O. representatives. At Larnaca airport, they commandeered a Cyprus Airways DC-8 jet and set out on a fruitless journey to Djibouti and back (see following story...
...kind of charm only a developed writer can muster. But American Buffalo is clearly from Mamet's earlier, less developed phase. Walter Kerr succinctly described it as "a play in search of a plot." In the case of this production, a solid cast is largely wasted in a fruitless theatrical exercise...
...Donald Coggan, the Archbishop of Canterbury. When he phoned Coggan, says Pae, the Archbishop "did not put any pressure on me" but "explained the gravity of the matter." The next day one of the bishops-to-be, C. Dale Doren of Pittsburgh, arrived in Taejon and spent a fruitless week trying to get Pae to take part. "I went through a lot of agonizing soul searching, but I just could not betray my church," Pae says. In Denver, Doren released a letter from Pae giving his "consent" to Doren's consecration and expressing his opinion that the new church should...
After several months of fruitless pleading with the Carter administration and Congress for an extension of emergency aid to New York City, Mayor Edward I. Koch announces the acquisition of "five or six neutron bombs." Comments Koch: "I have nothing against Washington itself, you understand, it's just some of the people there...
...real reason for the note: she has chosen not to discuss the one episode in her 85 years that everyone will be looking for. There is nothing about her notorious lapse into amnesia in 1926, and Dodd, Mead might well have tried to head off a great deal of fruitless inquiry. Dame Agatha's first husband had asked her for a divorce so that he could marry a younger woman. This was unthinkable, and to her unending regret, she did the unthinkable in return. Abandoning her car a few miles from home, she vanished. Following a massive man hunt...