Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...full-scale Security Council debate on the Middle East. Representatives of the P.L.O., who gained permanent observer status in the General Assembly last year but had never been included in Security Council proceedings before, were to be invited to participate in this debate, scheduled to begin on Jan. 12. The mandate renewal, which was to expire four hours before the agreement was reached, was accepted with relief by all parties...
Some TV shows can be at least as educational for the performers as the audience. Actor Edward Herrmann, who will portray President Franklin Roosevelt in a Jan. 11-12 special titled Eleanor and Franklin, was less than two years old when F.D.R. died in 1945. "Until recently, I knew very little about him," says the actor, "except that my father didn't like him and my mother did." Besides Herrmann's show, which COstars Jane Alexander as Eleanor Roosevelt, the small screen will soon show at least two more documentary dramas based on America's past. Arthur...
...American imagery-probably, Honour suggests, because of guilt at the genocidal cruelty of the conquista. Yet the Spanish massacres in South America and Mexico did give a Dutchman one poignant vision of the ruin of Arcadia, which is also the earliest known painting of the New World: Jan Mostaert's West Indian Scene, circa 1542, with its naked Indian tribe defending their pastoral paradise against a phalanx of armored Spaniards...
Venezuela. Nationalization of all oil operations will be completed by Jan. 1. Venezuelan Oil Minister Valentin Hernandez said the government would pay 39 foreign companies slightly more than $1 billion in cash and 6% bonds for their holdings. Exxon will get $512 million, Shell $240 million. The companies are not satisfied-Exxon reportedly had hoped to get $90 million more -but they have reluctantly accepted the government's offer and are planning to market nationalized Venezuelan oil in North America and Europe...
...Jan Oxenberg, in Home Movie, chronicles her gradual realization that she is a lesbian, narrating her story as we watch old home movies of her playing mother with her doll, tap dancing away, and at a later age, cheerleading...