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Marcos has taken pains to demonstrate his own credibility as a man clearly in command. Briskly settling affairs at home before his departure, he has moved sharply against alleged opponents and buttressed his regime with a succession plan that already bears the marks of a dynasty. At his prodding, the Philippine legislature last week approved a law clarifying constitutional provisions for a 15-member Executive Committee that would succeed him in the event of his death or disability. Last month Marcos appointed his wife to a spot on the new Executive Committee, thus entrenching her as the most likely person...
...visionary opera Satyagraha sold out five performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music after being performed successfully at Artpark in upstate New York and in Europe. At the Royal Palace in Amsterdam last May, Glass's newest music-theater piece, The Photographer, was premiered at a command performance for Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands. And in Chicago this summer, 10,000 listeners at Grant Park lustily cheered a performance of Adams' powerful 1981 choral piece, Harmonium. "When I was a student," says Adams, "I thought that if I wrote something that was attractive there must be something wrong...
...gunboats opened fire on the oceanside neighborhood of Rouche and the Carlton Hotel area after a ground penetration of about 2.5 miles into west Beirut that the Tel Aviv command said was aimed at preventing a dangerous new linkup between the leftists and some 2000 PLO guerillas reported still in the city...
...Please, brothers, just one kiss and keep moving." That command, delivered off-camera by an anonymous officer of the Palestine Liberation Organization, could be heard clearly on Jordanian television last week as King Hussein benignly received the embraces, one after another, of 265 P.L.O. guerrillas who had just arrived in his country after a 20-hour trip from Beirut via Cyprus. The guerrillas responded eagerly to their warm welcome, bearing aloft a portrait of Hussein that they had found in one of the rooms at the Mafraq airbase where the homecoming took place. "Long live King Hussein!" the guerrillas cheered...
Gemayel launched his military career when he was still a boy. During the brief age war of 1958, he officially joined the Phalangist militias at the age of eleven. He began regular military training two years later, and by 1969 was commander of a 100-man militia in his family's native village of Bikfaya, east of Beirut. Educated by the Jesuits, Gemayel took a law degree at St. Joseph's University of Beirut in 1971, but abandoned a short-lived law practice at the onset of Lebanon's civil war. In 1976 he became commander...