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...citizenship; he did not want to stop being a Russian. "As artists," he said, "we must be able to play what we want, where and when we want, with whom we want." That creed is perfectly acceptable in Washington, D.C., where Mstislav Rostropovich has achieved a rousing success as conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra, but last week it proved unacceptable in Moscow. In a decree signed by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, Rostropovich and his wife, the soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, were deprived of their Soviet citizenship as "ideological renegades." "Slava" Rostropovich called the action "inhumane and unfair." U.S. officials said...
What had thus begun as a major error for the terrorists ended-in the macabre mathematics of a suicide mission-as a death-dealing success. What is more, a P.L.O. leader claimed in Lebanon last week, the raid might even turn into a major economic blow against Israel as well. The attack, said an Al-Fatah commander who had helped to plan it, was designed not only to derail the Cairo-Jerusalem peace talks but also to raise havoc with the tourist trade in Israel during the Christian Holy Week and over Easter. Last week, indeed, the P.L.O. issued...
...first-round landslide. Of the 46.5% total, Chirac's Gaullists won 22.6%, giving the rightists a tiny edge of 1,320 votes over the Socialists as France's leading party. At the same time, Giscard, Chirac's rival in the center-right coalition, scored a modest success as a result of the surprisingly strong 21.5% showing of the Union pour la Démocratie Française a group of three small non-Gaullist parties that the President stitched together last month. The group pulled in more than 6 million votes-1 million over target...
Mahre's success reflects the growing strength of the U.S. alpine team, which just two years ago won only a bronze medal at the Innsbruck Olympics. After that debacle, the team's annual budget was doubled, to $600,000, and its staff of coaches increased from half a dozen to 14. "With that kind of organizational and financial stability," says Alpine Ski Team Director Hank Tauber, "I can finally lay out ten-month racing and training programs and prepare younger racers as well." This year the American team trails only those of Austria and Switzerland in World...
...success of the play, however, ultimately relies on the quality of the acting, and in this production of Ten Little Indians the actors do a fairly good job. The somewhat colorless leads are adequately played by Ted Wiprud as Philip Lombard, the cynical adventurer, and Troy Segal, the flirtatious and sexy secretary, Vera Claythorne. Wiprud's role is admittedly somewhat stereotyped, and as he appropriately swaggers around the stage, flirting with the all-too-ready Vera, he gives the audience little more than a superficial performance of a one-dimensional character...