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...Americans owe allegiance to George III? The author calls him "the royal brute of Great Britain" and a "hardened, sullen-tempered Pharoah." Do any monarchs have a hereditary right to rule their subjects? The author argues that dynasties are founded by "nothing better than the principal ruffian of some restless gang." Does America depend on Britain for safety or prosperity? Only in "the credulous weakness of our minds." Would it be better to delay? "Every thing that is right or reasonable pleads for separation. The blood of the slain, the weeping voice of nature cries, 'TIS TIME TO PART...
...developing countries obtain the postponements they had been seeking on the debts they owe to richer nations. The industrialized countries did agree, however, to join them in drawing up common guidelines to be applied to countries on the verge of bankruptcy. The rich countries also agreed to ease the transfer of technology to poorer nations as well as the trade barriers that hamper Third World exports...
Mostly because of the high price of oil and of imports from industrialized countries, LDCs have sharply increased their borrowing in the past two years. They now owe an estimated $145 billion to rich nations, to agencies like the International Monetary Fund and to private banks. By the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co.'s estimate, they will have to borrow more than an additional $40 billion this year. Interest and principal payments are swallowing most of the aid that the poor countries get. The Group of 77 will demand that the very poorest countries be granted a moratorium on their...
...love, all ages owe submission," wrote Alexander Pushkin. In his first major work in eight years, Choreographer Sir Frederick Ashton, 69, has adapted for Britain's Royal Ballet A Month in the Country, the Ivan Turgenev play about the foolish love of an older woman for a young man. Far from sad and tormented, however, Ashton's musing on middle-age folly emerges as an airy confection of elegant humor, bittersweet lyricism and charm...
...much depends on the dramatic switch ending concocted for the play that The Heiress seems to owe more to O. Henry than to Henry James. As a revival it must compete, too, with the memory of earlier incarnations, the 1947 play with Basil Rathbone and an oft-replayed movie starring Ralph Richardson as the coruscating father. The torment inflicted upon the daughter by the father can still stir old-fashioned pity, even in the age of women's lib, and the claustrophobic gentility of this 1850s New York home adds a note of melodrama...