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...known about Agca-especially the path of his travels from Turkey-remained remarkably fragmentary; the numerous accounts that appeared in the world's press were often contradictory. Turkish authorities were at least confident about one point: despite Agca's initial claims that he was associated with the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, he was really a right-wing fanatic. Agca was a frequenter of the "idealist youth associations," which are known to be satellites of the National Action Party (N.A.P.), a neofascist group with 586 members currently facing trial for terrorist acts in Turkey...
Agca first told one story, then another. After his arrest, he said that he had been trained by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (P.F.L.P.), the hard-line Marxist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization led by George Habash. In Lebanon, a spokesman for Habash told TIME: "We know nothing about this man. We have never heard of him before. He has no connection with us." Indeed...
...regional problem that the Administration fears could lead to an expansion of Soviet influence is the struggle in black Namibia (SouthWest Africa), which is trying to gain independence from white-ruled South Africa. Elections in Namibia would probably lead to a Marxist government. Reagan and Haig both met last week with South African Foreign Minister Roelof F. ("Pik") Botha and they agreed to support a formula that would guarantee the rights of the white minority before any elections are held...
...this time anything seems possible except that Calvino, 57, now an editor of the Turin house Giulio Einaudi Editore, was once a Marxist, a veteran of the World War II Resistance, who believed, in his youth, that literature should be dedicated to "political engagement," to "social battle...
...A.R.T.'S FIGARO is funny enough, in fact, that you have to think hard afterwards to figure out why it's also unsettling. Epstein has managed to underscore the class tensions in the play without turning it into a Marxist dialectic, and wherever Beaumarchais' introduces a didactic speech. Epstein finds ways for his characters to deliver it naturally. Each character, in turn--except the Count--gets to spout off about his oppression; and those who believe women's issues are a 20th-century invention will note that Marceline (Barbara Orson), who starts the play as Figaro's nemesis, offers...