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...death of Ukrainian Nationalist Leader Stefan Bandera in Munich was officially listed as a suicide. Bandera, apparently, had a sudden seizure, fell and broke his neck. An autopsy revealed traces of cyanide, which Munich police surmised had been self-administered, causing the fall. But last week the case was reopened by the confession of the man responsible for Bandera's "suicide"-a former Russian secret-police agent named Bogdan Nikolaevich Stachinsky...
...Brown, and this quality greatly enhanced a role that, if played by an archetypically ugly bourgeois gentleman, would have fallen flat. His plodding was that of a sincere man, not a machinator, and his final self-destruction becomes all the more pathetic. As for Dion and his wife (Bronia Stefan), both seemed more comfortable after O'Neill got his (or their) early soliloquies...
Munich's other resurrection, Strauss's Der Friedenstag, also suffered from a weak book-as did all of Strauss's operas after the death of Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Strauss had wanted Novelist Stefan Zweig as his librettist, but he was advised-i.e., ordered-by the Nazis to find a text writer of pure Aryan stock. His choice was Library Director Joseph Gregor, whose first draft was so hopeless ("Your dialogue between the two commanders is all wrong," wrote Strauss furiously; "it reads like two school teachers") that Zweig secretly rewrote the whole thing. Acclaiming...
...uneasy accommodation between Poland's Communist leaders and the Roman Catholic hierarchy was coming to a close. Four years ago the Primate of the Polish Church, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, in exchange for concessions to the church, urged Catholics (98% of all Poles ) to back Polish Communist Boss Wladyslaw Gomulka. Since then. Gomulka has steadily whittled away at Catholic prerogatives. Last week in two angry sermons, Cardinal Wyszynski served notice on Gomulka that he plainly recognized a "fight against the church...
...activists. Last year, factories suddenly stopped or slowed down deliveries of materials for church buildings, and the army started drafting seminary students a few at a time. Two religious holidays were declared to be official workdays. Then the party threatened to wipe out religious education in the schools, which Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski had won from Gomulka after months of struggle four years...