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...steady work in almost a year. Or Jorge Alvarado, 24, a semiemployed accountant in Lima's lower-middle-class Pueblo Libre neighborhood. "I don't agree with Nestor Cerpa taking hostages," he said. "But the embarrassing thing about this crisis is that Cerpa has become a sort of interlocutor between Fujimori and our economic problems. Maybe Fuji will listen to us a little more after this and not be so rigid...
...Palestinians, his campaign has put relations on a bad footing. He vowed he would never meet with Arafat, and his campaign ads sought blatantly to redemonize the P.L.O. leader. Then when he realized he could not even pretend to keep the peace process alive without the Palestinians' chosen interlocutor, he grudgingly conceded he might have to meet him after...
...aircraft-design engineer in 1944, when Stalin ordered Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov to start recruiting technicians rather than intellectuals and independent thinkers to staff the U.S.S.R.'s postwar diplomatic corps. From such implausible roots, Anatoly Dobrynin rose to become ambassador to the U.S. for five Soviet leaders and interlocutor for six U.S. Presidents--Kennedy to Reagan...
Sharp-eyed and keen, Glennie reads lips so fluently that an interlocutor would never know she cannot hear. In performance she watches the conductor and orchestra with a fierce intensity, picking up visual cues and bounding from instrument to instrument with the grace of a natural athlete. She often gets a workout: Dominic Muldowney's astringent Concerto for Percussion, subtitled Figure in a Landscape, which she performed with the Cincinnati Symphony late last month, employs cymbals, marimba, Japanese bells, a pair of bongos, two congas, a vibraphone, four small drums, four wood blocks and several boobams, which are tuned cylindrical...
...mining has scarred the land is to fly with Bruce Gordon, chief pilot of an environmental flying service called Lighthawk, and Roger Flynn, his interlocutor, who runs a one-man environmental law firm in Boulder called the Colorado Mining Action Project. From Denver the Cessna 210 heads south to New Mexico, then north along the spine of the Rockies above ulcerated | earth where the land has bled money -- from gold at Victor near Pikes Peak, and at Battle Mountain near San Luis, Colorado; and from molybdenum at Questa in northern New Mexico and at the vast Amax mine near Leadville...