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...troupe will present "Sganarelle: An Evening of Moliere Farces," and offer theatrical workshops throughout the Northeast, returning to Cambridge in late November to open their 1981-82 season...
Jenkins said yesterday he plans to return to Arizona to continue excavation on the site, located about 75 miles Northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona...
...ready by the time the funds start flowing this fall. Says Lou Glasse, director of New York State's office for the aging: "Each state is acting almost to invent its own wheel." Yet some local budget chops are beginning to become painfully clear. States in the Northeast and Midwest will probably be forced to cut social services most severely, since these states tend to spend more on the needy than Sunbelt states and are not so prosperous. In New York's Monroe County, for example, officials have already cut off funds for a treatment program for child...
...speed the process of decay in guerrilla ranks, the Thai government offers a generous amnesty program. So far this year more than 1,000 guerrillas in the northeast have defected. Those who defect are not asked to apologize or recant. They are generally given work on government construction projects or assisted with funds gathered by local merchants. Says Lieut. General Lak Salikupt, regional commander of the Second Army: "Persuasion is always more efficient than gunfire...
Bangkok has been far less successful in containing Communist insurgents in the deep south. In recent weeks, guerrillas there have blown up a railroad bridge, disrupted rail traffic to Malaysia and ambushed a police station. Unlike the northeast, where poor farmers were drawn to the Communists by promises of a better life, the south spawned guerrillas who concentrated their propaganda on government corruption. "The people in the south become Communists for revenge, not ideology," explains Uthai Hiruntoa, the Interior Ministry's director for rural development in the five southernmost provinces. "Fighting is intense today because the hatred is very...