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...flock of ten Soviet ships, including two destroyers, waited nervously at the limit of Swedish territorial waters, twelve miles offshore, as Moscow requested the right to salvage its stranded vessel. But Swedish Prime Minister Thörbjrn Fälldin insisted that his government would do the salvaging, and only after it had held an investigation to learn why the submarine had invaded Swedish waters. Such an inquiry required the presence of Skipper Gushin, but he refused to leave his ship, even when entreated by two Soviet diplomats. The Swedes settled in for a possible siege, as Gushin awaited orders...
Musica Antiqua Koin--17th century German chamber music; music of Scheldt, Biber, Hausmann, Schmelzer and Bach; Jordan Hall...
...food stamps, school lunches, unemployment compensation and a congeries of others, the biggest by far being Social Security. Their common element is that they provide eligible recipients with guaranteed benefits. Once a citizen meets certain standards-falling below a specified income level, losing a job, simply turning 65 in th case of Social Security-he or she qualifies for a pension, a fre meal, a low-interest college loan or whatever it is that by law must be granted, regardless of the cost to the society as a whole...
...this, wrote the-I radical critic Théophile Thoré, "should be one of the primary democratic goals of young artists: Man does not exist in the arts of the past, in the arts of yesterday; and he still has to be invented." By this, Thoré (like the artists he spoke for) meant man as political creature, man seen in his manifest social relations-not the decorative peasants of Boucher or the squalid, undifferentiated social lump the French bourgeois imagined the proletariat to be. The task of realism was therefore to record, in Weisberg's phrase, "human...
Legal nationality does not create cultural nationality, and Puerto Rico can only be absorbed into th United States through history, not through a legislative act, Morales told his audience...