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While few details were known about last week's discussions, the two sides agreed to the establishment of a mediation commission under Mobutu's chairmanship to deal with "technical" issues and to meet again in Zimbabwe in August. Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, who sat in on the talks, said afterward that Savimbi would leave Angola for voluntary exile. Other participants doubted that, however, assuming that Savimbi would want to stay on the scene to keep UNITA alive as a political movement. The biggest obstacle to a final agreement may arise if Dos Santos remains determined to preserve Angola's Marxist...
Cain's rise began in 1987 when his company added to its string of petrochemical plants, buying at bargain prices. Sterling and its partners gambled $1 billion on these plants, which were assembled into a single firm known as Cain Chemical. Last year Sterling sold the package to Occidental Petroleum in a deal that was valued at $2.2 billion. Cain shared his bounty ! with some 1,350 employees, who took home a total of $537 million...
AGAINST NATURE: JAPANESE ART IN THE EIGHTIES, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Architect Arata Isozaki and fashion designer Issey Miyake are famous abroad, but contemporary visual art from Japan is still little known in the West. The first major U.S. museum show from Japan in more than 20 years brings American audiences up-to-date with a survey of new work from the cultural center of East Asia. Through...
HELEN FRANKENTHALER: A PAINTINGS RETROSPECTIVE, Museum of Modern Art, New York City. In the '50s, Frankenthaler's lyrical washes of color had a decisive influence on abstract expressionism; today she ranks as America's best-known living woman artist. These 40 canvases from four decades show why. Through...
...More's the pity. I see that you write many unkind things about well-known personalities -- Nixon, Carter, Reagan, especially Geraldo Rivera. Why do you keep picking on Geraldo...