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...world price of copper-the country's principal export -which has dropped from $1.41 to 68? per lb. over the past two years. Zaïre has recently begun to pay the price for Mobutu's grandiose development schemes, including a national airline, a $1 billion hydroelectric project and a new $800 million copper complex. The government was forced to devalue the currency by 42% this spring and has defaulted on $400 million in foreign loans. The inflation rate has shot up to 120% over the past three years, while per capita income remains about $90 annually...
...British Broadcasting Corp. last week announced the most ambitious TV series ever planned: it will film, over the next six years, all of William Shakespeare's 37 plays, specifically staged for the small screen, a massive project that will cost $3.6 million and yield some 70 hours of programming. The BBC aims to produce six plays annually, with the first scheduled to start shooting in about 18 months. Although no stars have as yet been signed, Lord Olivier and Sir John Gielgud, among other major Shakespearean actors, are on the BBC'S shopping list...
...documentaries, such as The Forsythe Saga, Elizabeth R. with Glenda Jackson, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man and Alistair Cooke's America. The Shakespeare series, says BBC Programming Director Alasdair Milne, with no understatement at all, "is a vast project, the biggest we have ever undertaken, and a tremendously exciting one. We think it ought to be done, and we think we are the only TV organization in the world that...
...white-black Upstairs, Downstairs, a slice of a century of White House life expressed as a play within a play. Last week the survivors of the disaster were wondering what went right. Given the magic of the names involved, Coca-Cola and most of the 1600 actors bought the project on blind faith. Versatile Lead Ken Howard, who played all 13 Presidents, took the job without having seen a line of Lerner's book. British Actress Patricia Routledge, who played all the First Ladies, had heard only one song and Director Frank Corsaro (A Hatful of Rain, The Night...
Nancy Bellow, executive secretary of the CCC, said yesterday that because of the Wetlands Protection Act any project undertaken within 100 feet of the Charles River falls under the legal juridisdiction of her agency...