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...replace Andropov as head of the KGB, the Central Committee chose Vitali Fedorchuk, 63, the first professional secret policeman to serve in that post since 1958. Fedorchuk joined the secret police in the Ukraine in 1939, and served in military counterintelligence during the war. Right after the war he was transferred to occupied Austria and Germany. Following his appointment as head of the Ukrainian KGB in 1970, his branch of the secret police gained a reputation for particularly brutal repression of dissidents and religious groups. Fedorchuk is now expected to be elevated to the Central Committee and possibly even...
...works performed in Chicago were typical of Henze's eclectic style. In Los Caprichos, a gentle, evocative fantasy for orchestra, he draws on a series of etchings by Goya for inspiration. For Il Vitalino Raddoppiato, Henze goes back to the Baroque Chaconne attributed to Tomaso Vitali, composing an extended (26 minutes), virtuosic set of variations for violin and orchestra that preserves the repeating harmonic structure of Vitali's music while steadily growing in complexity. Arien des Orpheus is an elegiac suite from his full-length ballet Orpheus, based on the Greek myth. And in Barcarola, a darkly impressive...
Richard A. Vitali, the general manager of the Harvard Club of Boston, said "I think it will be good for both the Club and for the Coop. I've almost come to think of the University and the Coop as one and the same...
...Vitali, Aibinoni-- Violin and harpsichord concert, Museum of Fine Arts...
Said one of Shcharansky's close friends, Vitali Rubin, 54, who now teaches Chinese philosophy in Israel: "People have grown tired of being afraid. I had no doubt that Shcharansky would stand up to pressure. He knew that a Jew who is brought to trial has much more responsibility because he represents the entire Jewish community. What is being done to one Jew in a courtroom is really being done to all Jews. This is a fact of anti-Semitism...