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...first time I am seized," says Publisher Vo Long Trieu of the opposition Dai Dan Toe, "I will stop pub' lication. I can't afford to lose my deposit, and the government knows it." The triple threat of censorship, seizure and shutdown will force editors to be more circumspect, but most take Decree 007 philosophically. "What does it matter," asked one last week, "whether you have two or three nooses around your neck? One is enough to hang...
...blame on newsmen. Indeed many reporters, barred from the climactic scene, hesitated when word of the captives' safe release first came from the Bavarian state police, who were responsible for security at the airport in Fürstenfeldbruck. A few journalists were apparently misled when a local pub owner, Ludwig Pollack, passed a rumor near the airport gate that the terrorists had been seized; from this it was inferred that the hostages were safe. But it was only after receiving confirmation from Conrad Ahlers, official spokesman for the West German government, that many reporters sent firm-and wrong -stories...
JUMPERS Tom Stoppard's first full-length drama since Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead could have been written by a pixilated Orwell, a tipsy Shaw or a sozzled T.S. Eliot sounding off on metaphysics in a disorderly pub. Jumpers is an intoxicatingly clever absurdist comedy, a philosophical disquisition on the existence of God and the nature of truth, good and evil. It is also monstrously difficult to pin down...
Stopping at a Hampstead pub one day last week with his third wife, Actress Mia Farrow, Previn mused about his new life: "Some critics complain that I'm too facile, too concerned with sound rather than content. That hurts because I work hard, damned hard. But I do enjoy most making an orchestra 'sound,' making it project and play with the wish to sound beautiful. Do you know, every time I walk through Festival Hall when it's deserted, I'm moved? I realize I've achieved what I've always wanted...
...passed. Among them were David Munro, 35, a postal worker who pursued science studies "between putting two children to bed and having a quick pint," and Steelworker Colin O'Leary, 37, who jokes that after studying the philosophy of logic, "I can now win arguments at the pub...