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...originally written to be performed at the tiny, 156-seat Playwrights Horizon, the nurturing off-Broadway base camp for a generation of younger playwrights like Wasserstein. Only after the play opened at Playwrights last December to rave reviews and a sold-out three-month run were arrangements made to transport it to Broadway...
This week the Air Transport Association, the airlines' trade group, is expected to recommend some 200 changes in federal regulations that govern maintenance. One especially significant proposal: to remove airliners from service after a specified level of wear and tear, perhaps 80,000 cycles, and rebuild the planes from the wheels up. Says A.T.A. Vice President William Jackman: "It's a first step in a series of safety measures . . . a major effort by the airlines and planemakers to assure the airworthiness of passenger aircraft." With planes falling to pieces in the sky, passengers will appreciate that...
Ilyushin-76 transport flights in and out of the capital are running at a dozen a day, many carrying Soviet soldiers home. Two large Soviet bases north of the city are deserted. The main Soviet hospital has been turned over to Afghans, and Moscow has reduced its embassy staff by two-thirds, to about 100 people. Soviet infantrymen still patrol Kabul's streets, but they expect to be home within days. "It was a mistake to come here," says a trooper in the central shopping area. "And we are never coming back. It is up to the Afghan people...
...member of an antiaircraft battery, said goodbye to her companeros. She was part of the first contingent of Cuban soldiers to be withdrawn from Angola as part of a negotiated settlement to 13 years of fighting. In Kabul 500 Soviet soldiers, laden with equipment, lined up before military transport planes to fly home. Meanwhile, the Kremlin's Foreign Minister, Eduard Shevardnadze, and his deputy, Yuli Vorontsov, met separately with the Afghan regime and the leaders of the mujahedin to discuss what amounted to the terms of the U.S.S.R.'s defeat...
...enlisted volunteers everywhere, from senior citizens' homes to grade schools, to plant millions upon millions of trees. He has persuaded nurseries to donate unsold seedlings they would otherwise have destroyed. He has coaxed the California National Guard ("all those empty trucks and planes sitting around") into helping transport the trees. He once even persuaded Club Med to rescue and care for two exhausted TreePeople volunteers in Senegal who had fallen ill while planting fruit trees in famine-stricken African countries. "I don't know how many bureaucrats have laughed us off over the years," he muses. "Then one person says...