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...left. In Paris, Chirac was helped by lackluster opposition candidates for the mayoralty and by a strong showing of candidates running on an ecology platform, who drained votes from the left. In the provinces, however, many of his close political allies were defeated. "Chirac stands like a white knight in Paris," observed one of Giscard's ministers last week, "but the land around him is a graveyard marked with crosses over his friends' graves...
Sleeping Beauty. Russlan, based on a Pushkin poem, begins in the palace of the Prince of Kiev, where the wedding of the knight Russlan and the princess Ludmilla is about to be celebrated. In a pouf of smoke, Ludmilla is abducted by the wicked dwarf Tchernomor. The rest of the opera concerns Russlan's travails in trying to find her ahead of two other suitors; the prince has promised Ludmilla to the first man who can rescue her. A kind of Russian Siegfried, Russlan receives a magic sword from that singing head but in the end requires a magic...
William [Skip] Knight...
...Boston are being given as little as five days to pay for shipments. At the same time, unpaid bills from lallygagging consumers are piling up as never before. "I got more customers out 90 days than I care to talk about," says Litchfield Oil Co.'s Ken Knight of Lowell, Mass. For all of New England's 2,200 fuel oil companies, unpaid accounts are running from 17% above normal for larger dealers up to a ruinous 38% for small operators. Since October, 26 dealers have been forced to go out of business because their cash flow dried...
Despite the pressures on them, most fuel and utility companies are willing to strike a deal with dilatory customers. But with fuel consumption running 20% ahead of normal in some areas and costs soaring, the bite remains real enough. Says Litchfield's Knight: "It's a real dog-eat-dog winter...