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...REST OF GANG'S HERE too--or at least most of the gang. Apparently, Woodstock's schtick isn't stock, and Sally, Marcie, and Pig Pen have been excised...
...state, and in 1964 he was sent there to earn his keep. Neither the isolation nor the climate stopped him from writing. As he testified in his poem "A Part of Speech," "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers around a pen." In 1972 the Soviets decided they could get along without a Joseph Brodsky. Against his objections he was shipped to Austria, where W.H. Auden, then living in Kirchstetten, helped the uprooted poet on his way to the U.S. There Brodsky became an ornament on university faculties, a familiar voice...
...N.P.A.'s sincerity," said a State Department official. On the whole, the Reagan Administration was relieved that Aquino's interim constitution brought an end to weeks of deliberation, but remained anxious about the problems ahead. "Mrs. Aquino was able to sweep aside the vestiges of Marcos' structure with a pen," observed a State Department official, "but how things get done is not yet clear...
...seats in the 577-seat National Assembly, the Socialists will be a considerable opposition force. The two major conservative groups and their allies won 291 seats, a hairline two-vote majority. The ultraright National Front attracted 9.7% of the vote, giving the ) party of former Paratrooper Jean-Marie Le Pen parliamentary representation for the first time, with 35 seats. The biggest loser: France's Communist Party, which slumped from 20% of the vote in 1979 to 9.8% and appears to be in an irreversible decline...
...conservative alliance has vowed not to bring Le Pen into any rightist coalition. Aware that he is siphoning away votes from their constituency, opposition leaders have in recent weeks begun urging voters not to throw their ballots away by voting for Le Pen. "The proportional system is deliberately aimed at clouding the balance of forces," warns Jacques Toubon, the R.P.R. secretary-general. "That is why it is so essential that the voters give the R.P.R.-U.D.F. enough support for an absolute, unequivocal majority." The Socialists are also telling leftist voters not to waste their ballots by voting for the failing...