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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jill Davis, a vivacious office worker from West London, flew home with the memory of 24 hours spent inside a Roman tomb with her boy friend while Turks shelled the area; the couple feared they would be buried alive. Twins Amanda and Penny Mieras of Kent spent their 16th birthday using lipstick, eye shadow and a bed sheet to make a Union Jack to identify them as neutrals. U.S. Businessman John Mazzarella of New York City was among a group of tourists forced to remain inside the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia as hos tages of the Greeks against Turkish...
Last week Kim's death sentence and those of four others were commuted to life imprisonment. But this glimmer of clemency was instantly marred by the indictment of Roman Catholic Bishop Daniel Tji Hak Soun, 53, a longtime critic of Park's regime, on charges of plotting against the government. Bishop Tji was arrested in St. Mary's Hospital in Seoul, where he was being treated for diabetes, and charged with giving $2,500 to Kim Chi Ha to aid in the overthrow of the government...
...Endowment for the Arts who is currently serving as the Fogg's acting assistant director. The show features 13 works from the Schools of Bologna and Rome, including two different interpretations of the biblical legend of Joseph and Potiphar's wife (one of the greatest stories ever told) by Roman followers of Caravaggio. One of those two paintings is of special interest because it was done by one of the few women artists of the day, Artemesia Gentileschi. Gentileschi--the victim of a scandalous rape--knew full well that no man is entirely pure, and shows Joseph during a moment...
...ancient Egyptians invaded Cyprus around 1500 B.C. to strengthen the defense of their empire. Then came a string of conquerors that included Alexander the Great and the generals of the Roman Republic. Greek domination began in the 4th century A.D., when Cyprus became part of the Byzantine Empire. The Greek-speaking Byzantines founded the island's many monasteries, which became the source of the Orthodox Church's power on Cyprus and the most important cultural and linguistic link to Greece...
...thus barely qualifies as regional. But its locale, an Italian villa surrounded by 180 wooded acres, makes the summeiiong festival a remote, ethereal world apart. Opera performances are held in a 1,500-seat outdoor Venetian theater. The stage is built around three dozen 9th century Greek and Roman columns smuggled out of Italy decades ago and subsequently bought by the late Walter and Lucie Rosen, who owned Caramoor...