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...left. Though he has recently refused permission for opposition groups to hold demonstrations, he agreed to allow a massive protest march by Christian Democrats and Nationalists this week on the eve of a U.N. Conference on Trade and Development in Santiago. In southern Chile, illegal land seizures inspired by MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left) have continued at the rate of between 60 and 100 per month. Allende has spoken out against the seizures, but in order to avoid antagonizing his supporters on the extreme left, he has not called out the police to stop them...
Leftists in other countries have learned from the Papandreou government's mistakes, and are heeding his cautionary remarks. When I was in Chile (a few weeks back) leaders of the MIR (the Leftist Revolutionary Movement) alluded more than once to Mr. Papandreou's experience and understanding.News Editor, Boston After Dark
...David Stein, 35, is a highly skilled British forger of post-impressionist paintings. After a London gallery exhibited his fakes-billing the show as "Master Forger David Stein Presents Braque, Klee, Miró, Chagall, Matisse, Picasso"-a Manhattan gallery eagerly tried to follow suit. New York State's attorney general took the gallery to court, contending that the paintings would be a public nuisance. But New York Supreme Court Justice Arnold Fein sided with Stein and the gallery. Since Stein signed his name to the paintings and gave fair notice that the works were "in the style...
...period rather than reproduces our preconceived, caricaturing impressions of it. You Can't Take It With You is still a funny play, and if you've never seen a Kaufman and Hart farce, you might trip on up to Agassiz. If only to hear the Andrews Sisters sing Bei Mir Bist Du Shoen during intermission...
...author of a brilliant essay on the inevitability of the convergence of American and Russian systems, who lectures at the Lebedev Institute of Physics in Moscow, chalked on the blackboard a plea for signatures on a protest petition. Other intellectuals, including Alexander Tvardovsky, the ousted editor of Novy Mir, Roy Medvedev, Zhores' twin brother, and Igor Tamm, Nobel-prizewinning physicist, also protested Medvedev's imprisonment...