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...work, Strehler is a one-man lesson in the arts of persuasion. Divas and leading ladies alike find him enormously difficult to refuse-on stage and off. Vibrant and eloquent, a handsome bachelor (he was divorced some years ago) who has a crown of wavy silver hair, Strehler is a familiar figure in Italian gossip magazines because of his stormy love affairs. Not that he has all that much time to himself. Last week, while La Scala and the Paris Opéra were proudly introducing his work to U.S. audiences, Strehler was in Paris rehearsing Chekhov...
...ethnic groups in the territory -eight black, one white and three of mixed race-settled on Dec. 31, 1978, as the date for Namibian independence. A multiracial interim government-probably to be headed by Clemens Kapuuo, a Herero tribal chief, and Dirk Mudge, a white rancher-will draft a constitution, organize elections and oversee the transfer of power. The non-white majority at the conference had pressed for independence by next June 30, but in the end agreed to wait an extra 18 months in return for the kind of one-man, one-vote system it wanted. SWAPO predictably denounced...
...torture and even death during interrogation in South Korea. According to Amnesty International, there have been numerous charges of brutal, disfiguring tortures in Iraq, especially in Baghdad's Kasr-al-Nihaya Prison. In many black African countries, few torture victims survive to tell their stories. In such one-man dictatorships as Francisco Macias Nguema's Equatorial Guinea, Idi Amin's Uganda, Jean Bedel Bokassa's Central African Republic and Ahmed Sekou Toure's Republic of Guinea, unimaginably cruel, capricious and unpredictable tortures are everyday occurrences. In tiny Equatorial Guinea, which has suffered a reign...
...star who is Tennessee's other Senator, is far better known and more moderate than Brock. Says he: "In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik." He supported fair housing and opposed repeal of the one-man, one-vote principle. He also opposes busing and the Consumer Protection Agency and often votes against Pentagon cutbacks. His ACA ratings in 1975 dropped to 54% from previous ratings in the 70s. But he has never taken pains to ingratiate himself with party stalwarts; he is known...
Conspiracy, conspiracy, all is conspiracy, it creeps in this petty pace, Aah. But there's more, a one-man conspiracy, in fact, devoted only to the propagation of "seamless" prose, effortless to read. His name is John McPhee, he is perhaps the finest non-fiction in America, and he writes on anything, from oranges to flying machines, from tennis to bark canoes. [MORE]'s profile is not so finely crafted, but McPhee's light has been so long under the bushel basket that even this brief uncovering is dazzling...