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...larger consensus on terrorism may be emerging. The Soviet Union, which rarely says anything good about West Germany, gave favorable coverage to the commando rescue mission. East German Foreign Minister Oskar Fischer offered his country's services in dealing with Somalia. And, of course, Somalia ?long among the world's most notorious havens for skyjackers?cooperated in the rescue...
...Died. Oskar Morgenstern, 75, a brilliant Princeton University economist who shook the foundations of classical economic theory with his work in the fields of econometrics and the theory of games (Theory of Games and Economic Behavior, co-authored with John von Neumann; The Limits of Economics); of cancer; in Princeton, N.J. Morgenstern noted that classical economics -and many of its "neoclassical" adherents-has exhibited a dismal track record in predicting and interpreting phenomena. After viewing numerous examples of multivariable decision making in game situations (poker was a Morgenstern favorite), he used mathematics, logic and the relatively simple economic-behavioral concept...
...series of five 24-hour walkouts is scheduled to dramatize labor objections to rising sales taxes. In Italy, unions are threatening to block any further progress on Premier Giulio Andreotti's austerity plan. Even in West Germany, normally a bastion of labor harmony, Trade Union Chief Heinz Oskar Vetter warned that "the honeymoon is over" with the government of Chancellor Helmut Schmidt...
From the Titanic through the Ship of Fools, the movies have seldom undertaken a more top-heavy displeasure cruise than this one. The passenger list for Voyage of the Damned is heavily booked with star types-Max Von Sydow, Oskar Werner, Malcolm McDowell, Faye Dunaway, Lee Grant, James Mason, Orson Welles, Ben Gazzara and Katharine Ross-along with an affecting newcomer, Lynne Frederick. All have been brought aboard to add glamour to the journey, but the effort is futile. The actors struggle, usually valiantly (Werner, Von Sydow, Mason), sometimes campily (Dunaway, Welles), but are ultimately undone...
...same lunch table. The woman, who also asked that her name be withheld, has been a Ph.D. mathematician and physicist in her native Austria, an antiquarian and linguist after an attack of polio, the coordinator of an African education project, the author of an article on the artist Oskar Kokoschka, and is currently a student of plants. She explained her activities without the rabbi's serious tone in what she called a characteristic "lighter vein...