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DIED. Peter Weiss, 65, reclusive, German-born playwright who wrote the shocking tour de force, The Persecution and Assassination of Jean Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964); of a heart attack; in Stockholm. Tormented by guilt for having escaped the Holocaust and convinced that the modern world had gone mad, Weiss, who was a naturalized Swedish citizen, created polemical works of intense graphic imagery meant to jolt audiences out of their complacency. In Marat/Sade he explored clashing views of society: De Sade's celebration...
With similar practicality, the Socialists have abandoned their original plan for a freeze on nuclear power plant construction, pending a national referendum. Six of the nine plants proposed by the Giscard government are under construction-to the immense displeasure of environmentalists who voted for the Socialists. Explains Jean Poperen, a senior party secretary: "We discovered that we could not reduce our oil bill, have 3% growth and stop nuclear power...
...Jean-Clause "Baby Doc" Duvalier, Haiti's 30-year-old President for Life rules the poorest country in the western hemisphere. Unemployment and illiteracy have both been estimated at 30 percent of the population. In the capital city, Port as Prince, the average annual income is $275 a year, in the rural areas the figure falls below $135 a year. The infant mortality rate is 30 percent, and the average Haitian life span is 52 years. Amidst this squalor, Duvalier spent more than $1 million on his 1980 marriage ceremony...
Perkins is quick to assert that HIID would never consider a project in a country with a record of "extreme human rights violations." He cites the Central African Republic under Emperor Jean-Bedel Bokassa as an example of such an extreme case. Crowned in a garrish ceremony attended by many world leaders in the mid-70s, Bokassa was forced to abdicate his throne because of widespread accusations that he had personally murdered, and later eaten, dozens of schoolchildren...
...very young children, even Kemeny's BASIC is much too mathematical. Instead, more and more schools are turning to an innovative computer language called LOGO (from the Greek word for reason), developed by Seymour Papert and his colleagues at M.I.T. A mathematician who studied with the Swiss psychologist Jean Piaget, Papert has become something of a guru of the computer generation, predicting that the machines will revolutionize learning by taking much of the mystery out of mathematics, science and technology. Says he: "The computer can make the most abstract things concrete...