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...civilian use, but it has also insisted that facilities be turned over environmentally clean. Nonetheless, communities have shied away from accepting future liability for any of the sites, and some transfers seem likely to drag on for decades. President Bush last month signed a bill sponsored by Congressman Leon Panetta designed to streamline procedures - for allowing certain portions of the bases to be turned over piece by piece, and for assuring that the Federal Government remains responsible for any future cleanup problems...
CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Ajemian, Kurt Andersen, Bonnie Angelo, Laurence I. Barrett, Jesse Birnbaum, Jay Cocks, Mary Cronin, Barbara Ehrenreich, John Elson, Hays Gorey, Pico Iyer, Edward L. Jamieson (Consulting Editor), Leon Jaroff, Stefan Kanfer, Michael Kinsley, Charles Krauthammer, Dennis Overbye, Edwin M. Reingold, Richard Schickel, Gavin Scott, R.Z. Sheppard, John Skow, Martha Smilgis, Richard Stengel, George M. Taber, Andrew Tobias...
That was not always the case. The wave of progressive thinking that first brought welfare benefits to Europe at the turn of the century did not reach France until 1936, when the Popular Front government of Premier Leon Blum imposed worker-friendly reforms, including higher salaries, paid vacations and a 40-hour workweek. Still suffering from the Great Depression, the French middle class felt threatened by the worker privileges and contributed to Blum's rapid demise...
EVERYTHING ABOUT MEXICAN PAINTER Frida Kahlo was high drama. In pain all her life after a streetcar accident, she battled drugs and despair, had a tumultuous marriage to muralist Diego Rivera and conducted affairs with women and men, including Leon Trotsky. FRIDA, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival, adds to her stature as cult figurine. Mexican musical motifs blend with spoken monologues and lyrical, character-defining songs, while masks and puppets recreate the magic realism of her paintings. In the title role, Helen Schneider conveys the radiance and explosive fury of the woman whose...
...most powerful scene in the play, wonderfully directed by Phoebe Wray, in which Leon Czolgosz tells of the torture of slaving over a hot oven in a bottle-making factory, but cannot bring himself to release his anger by breaking a bottle at a bar, is almost too painful to watch...