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Mitterrand picks an austerity Premier, and the Communists walk...
...Paso, both plucked from behind the Iron Curtain with the Occidental Petroleum chairman's patented blend of bucks and brass. Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski at first refused to sell El Paso, which he called "a national treasure," but a million dollars from Hammer helped change the Premier's mind. Hammer was in Florida last week for a show at a farm near Ocala that included 36 of his Arabians. The day before, the Armand Hammer Arabian Classic was run at Pompano Park. "Arabian horses are works of art," he says. "They are beautiful and lucrative." Hammer...
REINSTATED. Vyacheslav Molotov, 94, onetime Soviet Premier and Foreign Minister under Joseph Stalin who negotiated the infamous Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact of 1939; to membership in the Communist Party, from which he was dropped in 1962; in Moscow. Molotov was dismissed from the party five years after losing his post-Stalin leadership positions, allegedly for belonging to a group seeking the overthrow of Party Boss Nikita Khrushchev...
...fully to another medium as Ingmar Bergman has to the stage. Since his career began in 1944 (when his first screenplay was produced, and he was named artistic director of the Halsingborg City Theater), Bergman has spent most of his time as one of the world's premier theater directors. For him, the writing and directing of films is both a vacation from and an extension of his stage work. In films from Smiles of a Summer Night to Fanny and Alexander, Bergman has celebrated that bare stage, on which actor and director collaborate with a willing audience...
DIED. Yigael Yadin, 67, Israel's premier archaeologist and the epitome of that nation's citizen-soldier-politician tradition, who twice set aside his passion for the past, first to become a hero of the 1948 war of independence and Israeli chief of staff from 1949 to '52, later to serve as Deputy Prime Minister under Menachem Begin from 1977 to '81; of a heart attack; in Hadera, Israel. As operations chief...