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...FESTIVAL. Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe. Award-winning portrait of the Welsh poet. Program includes recordings of his own readings, as well as interviews with his close friends Novelist Pamela Hansford Johnson and Painter Mervyn Levy. Repeat...
Bulletproof. Steiner's mercenary officers are a mixed lot, united only by loyalty to their commander, distinguished only by their combat experience and their foibles. Major Taffy, 34, Welsh and a veteran of the Fifth Commando mercenaries of the Congo, thinks he is bulletproof. By now, so do the federals, who have reported him dead at least five times since last December. Taffy came perilously close to being killed a few weeks ago, when a round smashed into his binoculars. Short-tempered, he curses his black troops constantly, threatening to kill them if they don't obey orders...
...three singles released along with their own last week, the Beatles make a modest start toward that goal. One, produced by Paul McCartney, introduces 18-year-old Mary Hopkin, a Welsh folk singer with a high, clear soprano reminiscent of Folk Singer Joan Baez. Singing Those Were the Days, a sort of Mediterranean-style café song, she gives a gently swaying, lyrical performance. Another record, produced by George Harrison, offers Liverpool Rock Singer Jackie Lomax, 24, in a driving, bluesy delivery of a Harrison song, Sour Milk Sea. Then there is the 113-year-old Black Dyke Mills Band...
...some point in history, all men belonged to tribes,*and most of them resisted efforts to integrate them into nation-states. The Scots were tribal until well into the 18th century, and the Welsh partly so. Even the modern West is not wholly free of tribalism, as witness Canada's French-speaking separatists and the bitter divisions between Walloons and Flemings in Belgium...
...Tinto will build its 112,000-ton smelter on the Welsh island of Anglesey at Holyhead. As the "buying-in" price for a cheap power deal, it will in vest $79 million in the new Dungeness nuclear-power station in Kent. British Aluminium got the coveted site at Invergordon in the Highlands, the last undeveloped deep-water port in the United Kingdom. Its 112,000-ton smelter there will be fueled at the cheap rate in return for a $70 million investment...