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...downtown Sarajevo, a group of Bosnians waited out the battle. Nijaz Mutevelic, 66, was resigned. The Bosnians might not succeed, but he was glad they were trying. "The question is very simple," he said. "Is such a life worth living, or is it not better to fight?" His wife Rada and their neighbors Senada Hukovic and Ksenija Crvenkovic agreed. "Politics has not managed to tear us apart," said Crvenkovic. "And see, I'm a Croat, Rada is a Serb, and Nijaz and Senada are Muslims. That's Sarajevo...
...there was more to Branagh than blond ambition. Says Hugh Cruttwell, then RADA's principal: "He had all the talent and initiative you can see in full flood now." Other people soon saw it too. Just out of RADA he won the plum role of Judd, the cynical Marxist student in Another Country -- a performance whose laser intelligence and subversive edge announced an actor at the start of a brilliant career. He would fulfill that promise when the RSC's Adrian Noble cast him as Henry...
...first transfer of power from one elected government to another in 40 years. Barrantes' decision to pull out came 36 hours after guerrillas, believed to be from the Maoist movement known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), machine-gunned a car carrying the country's chief election officer, Domingo Garcia Rada, 72. Garcia Rada is in critical condition. President Belaunde denounced the "insane men who are bloodying our nation," declaring, "we will not let them interfere with the election process...
...Communist high officials' wives to appear frequently in public or to develop an independent identity; in Moscow on Aug. 8. A schoolteacher who married Khrushchev in 1924, she was his second wife and bore him three children (a son, Sergei, and a daughter, Rada, survive). After her husband's accession to power, she accompanied him on several trips abroad, notably to the U.S. in 1959, where she emerged as warm, witty and charming. After Khrushchev's ouster in 1964, followed by his death in 1971, she lived quietly at their dacha outside Moscow...
Possible Boswells. The Khrushchev family abounds with possible Boswells. Adzhubei's wife Rada, 40, one of Khrushchev's four daughters, has worked as deputy editor of the monthly Science and Life. Granddaughter Yulia, whose father Leonid, the elder Khrushchev son, was killed during World War II, studied journalism at Moscow University and has worked for Trud, the trade union newspaper. Her husband Lev, who died in July, was an editor of the news agency Novosti and of the English-language magazine Soviet Weekly. With that many journalists in the Khrushchev household, it would not be surprising...