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While the Administration's Grenada venture had turned out a popular success, the Government's information apparatus was still in some disarray. Last week, for example, State Department Spokesman John Hughes officially confirmed a rumor that a grave holding more than 100 bodies of Grenadians slain by Marxist forces in the "bloody Wednesday" massacre of Oct. 19 had been found on the island. Next day he had to admit there was no such discovery. U.S. military authorities later located a grave believed to have held the burned bodies of former Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and three Cabinet members...
...three sticks of dynamite, exploded around 11 p.m.-in time to interrupt a previously announced night session on defense appropriations. Merely by chance, the Senate had adjourned early. Had the lawmakers lingered as late as expected, said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, "undoubtedly there would have been grave injury and perhaps loss of life." Instead, the explosion tore Byrd's doors off their hinges, wrecked a portion of the Republican cloakroom near by and damaged valuable artwork, including oil portraits of the legendary Senators Webster, Clay and Calhoun. The cost of the destruction was estimated...
...time when the world of study belonged only to men, there lived a girl called Yentl. Eastern Europe, 1904." A shy, clumsy thing with a burning intelligence, Yentl breaks Hebrew tradition and is instructed secretly in the Scriptures by her ailing father (Nehemiah Persoff, a grave, endearing patriarch). When he dies, Yentl resolves to fulfill her dream of studying at a yeshiva. She cuts her hair, dons a suit and strikes out on her own, calling herself "Anshel." Her new study partner is a handsome rabbinical student, Avigdor (Patinkin), for whom the Talmud holds all life's answers...
...WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE risen from the grave to see the three-and-a-half hour production of his The Winter's Tale currently being mounted at the Agassiz Theatre, he probably would have suffered a massive heart attack after the first five minutes. But had Shakespeare survived the initial shock of director Paul Warner's very twentieth-century interpretation of his next to last play, the bard would have realized he was watching a very creative mind at work...
...Dulles-like brinkmanship. At the same time, a succession of crises convinced him that a new course was necessary. At American University he declared, "What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave ... not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women-not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time ... Let us re-examine our attitude toward the cold war, remembering that we are not engaged in a debate . .. We must...