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...Night in the Ukraine, Groucho lives. So do Chico, Harpo and that lady of the formidable embonpoìnt, Margaret Dumont. The program note says that this exercise in dementia is "loosely based on Chekhov's The Bear." Groucho (David Garrison) is the shysterish Samovar the Lawyer. Chico (Frank Lazarus) is a larcenous tongue-in-cheeky footman to the imperious Mrs. Pavlenko (Hewett), the Dumont role. Perfectly at ease as Harpo, Priscilla Lopez is a creature from another planet, who at one wonderfully zany moment plucks out the inevitable harp solo on the spokes of an upside-down bicycle...
...Seattle, Wash., and Japan which attempts to publicize the plight of political dissidents in Taiwan. With the increase in circulation, however, came an increase in attacks, both verbal and physical, against the publication from enraged private citizens. Opposition members suspect that Taiwan's secret police agencies, the Taiwan Garrison Command and the Investigation Bureau, sanctioned the abuses...
...lawyers, van Derwees said. Among the restrictions: they will have only three days to examine evidence collected by the government and will be allowed only to hand copy those materials; they will be permitted to meet with the defendants for only 40 minutes to discuss strategy, and the Taiwan Garrison Command, a secret police agency, will record those meetings; and they will not be able to cross-examine prosecution witnesses...
With MacArthur and the doomed garrison on Corregidor was MacArthur's old friend Manuel Quezon, 63, the first President of the Philippines. Quezon, suffering from tuberculosis, wanted a ship to evacuate him, but MacArthur said it was too risky. The U.S. War Department also wanted Quezon evacuated, but MacArthur said it could not be done...
...Philippine armed forces. On Feb. 19, MacArthur was notified that the funds had been transferred. The very next day Quezon was put aboard a U.S. submarine and taken to safety. (He died in the U.S. in 1944.) MacArthur himself was ordered to leave Corregidor soon afterward. The garrison,, he left behind fought on until it was overrun...