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Terror for Export. Black September has been difficult to combat partly because its members operate in extremely small cells. It gets its money from Al Fatah-which is largely underwritten these days by Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi-as well as directly from other governments and wealthy Palestinians. Whether Arafat knows what goes on is a closely held secret. Many young commandos now consider Arafat a reactionary, and they may deliberately ignore him when laying their plans. Associates say that Arafat was genuinely surprised and upset when he was told of the assassination of Wasfi Tell-though that could have been...
Future programs, like last week's, will be underwritten by private foundations and the National Endowment for the Arts and researched by Music Historian Vera Brodsky Lawrence, whose mania for musical Americana has resulted in the publication of the complete music of Louis Moreau Gottschalk and of Ragtime Composer Scott Joplin (TIME, Feb. 7). With such continued aid and support, says Hill, "we want to do a dozen or more programs like this one. Even that would barely scratch the surface...
...rehash of Gaslight, with a neurasthenic wife being driven totally batty by her calculating husband and his mistress (Elaine Kerr). An unprepared-for ending quite reverses this premise. As the lady with frayed nerve ends, Joan Hackett is convincingly twitchy, but she overworks the part to camouflage how underwritten the play is. In superior forms of suspense, the audience is tipped to what the characters do not know. In inferior forms, like Night Watch, the audience is in the dark and must wait, none too pleasurably, to find out precisely how it has been fooled...
...Summer Youth Employment Programs--The University was involved in two programs this past Summer. Twenty-two Cambridge youths, 50 per cent of whom are of Minority background, worked at the University during June, July and August. The program was underwritten by the University...
...company is now rehiring laid-off workers at a rate of 200 a week. Executives who only the day before the vote had been making apocalyptic warnings of a Lockheed failure were now predicting that the firm might not need all of the $250 million that Congress had underwritten. Just two days after the vote, Lockheed released surprisingly healthy first-half earnings figures: $11.3 million after taxes, up $3.8 million from last year...