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With or without Argentine backing, the Garcia Meza regime is on weak ground. Only eight countries, among them Israel, South Africa and Paraguay, recognize it. Tin miners continue a costly strike ($1.5 million a day in lost export earnings). Not even all the military approve of the coup: Garcia Meza's reshuffling of troop commanders is seen as a clear sign of suspect allegiance. Archbishop Jorge Manriquez Hurtado of La Paz and Bolivia's Council of Bishops have condemned the junta for creating a "climate of violence." On Aug. 6, Independence Day, the day he probably would have...
...foreign exchange reserves and is dependent on aid. Venezuela has frozen $285 million in credit. About $123 million, mostly in development aid, has been lost with the suspension of U.S. disbursements. Bolivia's balance of payments deficit for 1980 is now forecast to be $500 million; with tin exports interrupted, the junta may in effect go bankrupt before it has a chance to do more damage. In addition to eliminating all military assistance and sharply cutting back on economic aid, the U.S. last week announced that it was ending a joint program of narcotics control with the Bolivians. Reason...
Playwright Tennessee Williams is madder than a cat on a hot tin roof about the reviews that crumpled his Clothes for a Summer Hotel as soon as it opened on Broadway last March. "I'll never open a play in New York again," he vows. Williams is therefore discussing an alliance with the Goodman Theater in Chicago, hoping the city that raved about the premiere of his first play, The Glass Menagerie, will once again be his kind of town. "This move was forced on me," insists the Pulitzer prizewinner. "I can't get good press from...
...junta immediately disbanded Congress, imposed a dusk-to-dawn curfew and moved rapidly to crush resistance by students and workers, who called for a general strike in protest against the "fascist coup-makers." Tanks and troops also moved into southern towns where some 5,000 armed tin miners were blocking the roads and vowing to fight the coup "until the ultimate consequences." There were ominous signs that the junta had adopted the chilling anti-terrorist tactics pioneered by Argentina's military bosses. As in Argentina, a number of activists simply disappeared after being kidnaped by plain-clothes thugs...
...Fauvism, cubism and futurism -were able to digest and develop them with tremendous speed and urgency, leaping beyond their prototypes like pole vaulters. To see this at work, one need only look at the development of Vladimir Tallin's sculpture after his first contact with Picasso's tin cubist Guitar, 1912, in Paris, or at the conviction with which Kasimir Malevich moved from cubism to a purely abstract painting...