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Flanked by at least six U.S. secret service agents, a dozen Malian officials, several Cambridge police officers, two stretch limousines and a ten-car motorcade, Mali Prime Minister Ibrahim Boubacar Keita arrived on the Kennedy School of Government campus yesterday afternoon...
...dispute. "He may not be Mozart or Beethoven to the Germans," says Edda Sels, press spokeswoman for the popular production of Cats in Hamburg, "but he can combine classical and popular music in such a way that it appeals to audiences who want both 'entertaining' and 'serious' music." Director Keita Asari, whose Shiki theater company, the largest in Japan, has staged Superstar, Evita and Cats, calls Lloyd Webber a "genius who unfolds melodies through various modes that somewhere reverberate classical music. That's the reason he is universally loved...
Birth Revealed. To Steveland Morris, 26, blind Grammy Award-winning singer, lyricist and composer known as Stevie Wonder (For Once in My Life, Superstition); and Yolanda Simmons, his companion for four years; their second child, first boy; on April 16; in Manhattan. Name: Keita Sawandi...
...significant industry, and there are no important mineral deposits. About 95% of the 4,700,000 Malians are subsistence farmers. Mali's exports (mostly cattle and cotton) are minuscule. Trade deficits have been running at an average $20 million annually, and rose to $38 million in 1966. Keita's struggle to impose a socialist economy met with a singular lack of success. Coupled with these problems had been Keita's steady movement toward political absolutism, culminating in the creation in 1967 of the "Committee for the Defense of the Revolution." In effect, the committee replaced the weak...
...leader, Moussa Traore, 32, an army lieutenant who graduated first in his class from France's Overseas Officers' School at Frejus some years ago. Under his direction, the National Liberation Committee has moved quickly to consolidate its rule. It ordered statues and portraits of the imposing Keita torn down, the Red Guard militia abolished. Free elections have been promised, and private enterprise has been invited into the country. Clearly, the new rulers of the former French colony were abandoning Keita's policy of increasing dependence on Communist China and the Soviet Union. In Paris, officials were something...