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...once fierce Hunzarwals are descended, it is said, from three roving soldiers in the army of Alexander the Great. For the last 900 years they have been ruled by a Mir (or Prince) from the somnolent capital city of Baltit. From now on, though, they will be ruled by bureaucrats from Islamabad. Last week the Pakistan government, which already had taken responsibility for Hunza's external affairs, communications and defense, formally absorbed the ancient feudal principality without violence. The 40th Mir, one Mohammed Janal Khan, was put out of office and on a pension...
...Greek who should have no quarrel with Americans-Aristotle Onassis, who is reported to be taking an apartment there. The operators promise every conceivable convenience, from private, temperature-controlled wine cellars to a supersophisticated electronic surveillance system that will yawp at the concierge's desk downstairs if a Miró on a wall is touched by a burglar -or even the owner...
Died. José Miró Cardona, 71, shrewd, fence-straddling Cuban criminal lawyer who fled Batista's regime to Miami in 1958, served briefly in 1959 as Cuba's first Prime Minister after Castro's revolution, then fell out ideologically with his boss and returned to the U.S., where he headed the Cuban Revolution Council, before clashing with President Kennedy and settling in Puerto Rico as a law professor; of a heart attack; in San Juan...
...sunny, seaside gardens of Oreanda, they quickly saw how far apart they were. The main problem was to find a way of reconciling the Russian lead in offensive missiles-a lead of 2,358 to 1,710-with the 3-to-l American advantage in warheads, counting the MIR vs. The Russians' nightmare was their conviction that the U.S. is far stronger than they are today, largely because of its lead in MIRV technology; the Americans' fear was that the Soviets, catching up in MlRVs and with more launchers to mount them on, could surge ahead...
This contrast between precise objects, minuscule in size, and the limit less field across which they pullulate is central to Miró, and it corresponds to the fundamental experience of his vision. Even when Miro is at his most abstract, therefore, one is constantly reminded that his name, in Spanish, means...