Word: units
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After Flight 181 was skyjacked, Schleyer's captors-who call themselves the Commando Siegfried Hausner unit of the Red Army Faction-sent one ultimatum to the West German government and a second to the Paris mass-circulation daily France-Soir. In the messages, the group boasted of its ties to the skyjackers and set out its demands. Among them: the release from West German prisons of eleven convicted urban guerrillas (including Andreas Baader, co-founder of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang); the freeing of two Palestinian guerrillas from Turkish jails; the transporting of the prisoners to Viet Nam, Somalia...
...means gone. Last week as the two women received congratulations from friends and supporters, three more victims of the Irish Republican Army's Provisional unit were being buried: a prison guard who was machine-gunned in his car, a school-bus driver who was shot to death as he stopped on his route, and a woman private in the Ulster Defence Regiment, who was gunned down in her mobile home. The third group of attackers even turned their guns on their victim's terrified three-year-old daughter, sending bullets through the Teddy bear she was holding...
...OFTEN the difference between an uninspiring show and a good one lies in the energy a cast can muster, both individually and as a unit. If a cast has a collective feeling and the actors do their homework, the audience senses a flow that carries it along from scene to scene. Without that intangible, scenes fall flat, jokes sound stale, and productions become free-for-alls of thespian one-upmanship. Exceptions on any level are rare, particularly on the college level. This problem takes a particularly acute form at the Loeb's Mainstage Theater, a beautifully appointed but somewhat cavernous...
...disease originate? No one knows yet. But as they continued looking for telltale signs of Legionnaires' disease -characteristic antibodies-in the blood of other Vermonters who recently had "pneumonia," investigators expected to find still more cases. Said Dr. Charles Phillips, head of the hospital's infectious diseases unit: "The honest-to-goodness truth is that the disease is all over...
...Ponnelle production, originally conceived for the Cologne Opera and brought to the U.S. this season jointly by the Lyric and San Francisco operas, displays a unit set of striking originality. The rear wall consists entirely of a huge head of Neptune. On a series of short steps leading down from his face the play unfolds. Occasionally Ponnelle overstyles that drama: Idomeneo (skillfully interpreted by Swiss-born Tenor Eric Tappy) and the court freeze their poses, while Ilia laments the apparent loss of Idamante. But such effects are redeemed by the cast-and by the brilliantly inventive lighting. In Gilbert Hemsley...