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...artistic directorship of the Guthrie is thus one of the plums in the American theater. Despite this, of the six men who have held it, only two have been Americans. Alvin Epstein lasted a single season before returning in 1979 to a distinguished career as a roving actor and director. The second is Garland Wright, 42, who was appointed two years ago and recently extended his contract until...
Walesa acted just hours after he achieved a breakthrough in his relations with the Communist regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. He held three hours of talks in Warsaw with Interior Minister General Czeslaw Kiszczak, the first time senior Polish officials have granted Walesa a role in the nation's affairs since 1981, when they imposed martial law, suppressed Solidarity and put the union leader in detention. Kiszczak said if the strikes were halted, the regime would set up a round table for serious negotiations on the economy, presumably including workers' demands for better wages, housing and food stocks...
...evident mood of disconnection is that most voters simply do not pay much attention to the campaign until Labor Day. This year, Democratic Pollster Paul Maslin points out, that effect is compounded because "no incumbent is running and because attitudes about Bush and Dukakis are so weakly held...
...Minority Students Alliance compiled a report criticizing the University for failing to aggressively recruit minority faculty. Black law students held a 24-hours sit-in at the dean's office to protest inaction on minority faculty hiring...
...carried out the theme set for the IOP by Governor Thornburgh [the IOP director] that was to give a priority to elective politics, and we have three people who have held elected office," said David R. Runkel, the IOP's deputy director. "The others have been closely associated with political campaigns and have worked directly for people who have held elective office...