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Last night's appearance, sponsored by numerous area Palestinian and Arab groups, is part of a tour of the United States being made by five members of the LNM to inform Americans about the Lebanese situation...
When Secretary of Energy James Schlesinger arrived in China last week for a fortnight's tour of oilfields and industrial centers, he was the fourth high-level member of the Carter Administration to visit a nation that the U.S. does not formally recognize. Schlesinger was hoping to sound out Chinese leaders on ways to end that anomaly. Jimmy Carter would like to recognize the Peking regime, preferably before the 1980 presidential campaign gets fully under way, but the effort involves major diplomatic difficulties, and it may provoke a political storm in the U.S. TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott...
Neil Young has spent over a decade writing finely shaded, sometimes frighteningly intense personal music that dances right around the edges of Dylan's long shadow. Young, a firm Dylan loyalist, also has a new record out, Comes a Time, and last week he completed his most extensive tour in years. Dylan continues on a three-month barnstorming blitz, playing St. Paul in his home territory of Minnesota this week. Earlier both converged on New York City at the same time. Young played to wildly partisan crowds, while Dylan kept his audience at arm's length and flummoxed...
...home he never stops talking, says Marcel Marceau's wife, but on the stage France's master of mime favors the silent treatment. Fresh from a three year, 53-city tour, Marceau, 55, has returned to Paris with some new acts. "It's harder and harder to innovate," he sighs. "My creations must always be more surprising." On Nov. 15 he will open a World Center for Mime on the Right Bank. The center, which already has 400 applicants, is largely underwritten by the city of Paris. "It's a dream that has been close...
Being out front with ideas is a Garst family tradition. David's father Roswell, who died last November at 79, is remembered internationally as the corn grower who played host to Nikita Khrushchev on his U.S. tour in 1959. But on the prairies Roswell is remembered as a developer, with Henry Wallace, of hybrid corn. David, a blunt-featured bear of a man who graduated from Stanford ('50), is promoting innovation on his own. Among the techniques that he and his family have pushed...