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Last week Papp unveiled what he described as his biggest project yet: a six-year, 40-show plan to stage the complete plays and poetry of the writer to whom he has remained unwaveringly committed throughout all his kaleidoscopic activity, Shakespeare. Said Papp: "There are fewer new plays I want to do, audiences are enthusiastic for these classics, and actors need to play these parts to become great...
...days with leaders of the U.S.-backed contras and to open direct negotiations for a cease-fire in Nicaragua's civil war, now in its seventh year. Once the shooting stopped, Ortega said, his Marxist-oriented Sandinista government would release its political prisoners. He also promised to lift the six-year state of emergency that had allowed the Managua regime to impose its dictatorial rule. Those last-minute pledges saved the meeting -- and perhaps the whole peace process -- from total collapse. "War is easy," declared Arias at a postsummit press conference. "Peace requires goodwill from many people...
...six-year undergraduate plan, and last year I married one of the members of my original class, long since graduated. She is now on the Harvard Faculty. While Harvard's academic calendar makes life hellish for us undergraduates, it makes life heavenly for my wife and the rest of the faculty, to such an extent that I would not have believed it if I hadn't seen it in my own home...
...that 50% of those surveyed wanted him to quit. The pressure for Waldheim to leave is expected to increase next month, when an international panel of historians appointed by the Austrian government releases its long-awaited report on his wartime activities. Yet Waldheim insists that he will complete his six-year term. Says he: "I am a President for Austrians, and not for abroad...
...airfield and seized enough Soviet-made weapons to supply 1,000 troops. Their biggest coup was the destruction of a Soviet GCI radar unit that formed the heart of Sandinista air defenses for the region. Jubilant rebel leaders called the two- day assault the most successful offensive of the six-year civil war. "We hit them hard," claimed Enrique Bermudez, the contras' military commander. "We achieved all our objectives...