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Harbison considers himself first of all a composer of operas, and he is contemplating a new one. "I have been gravitating toward pieces that require refining of my operatic skills," he notes. "I've been choosing, perhaps subconsciously, to write things that contain some sense of a protagonist, things that are overtly dramatic." Concertos, as Mozart proved, are one way to do this, and song cycles another...
Social Security. This issue has thus far caused Reagan more political headaches than any other. And he has yet to begin to get to the heart of the problem. Last week he tried again to contain the popular damage caused by his elimination of the $112-a-month minimum benefit, which goes to workers who have not contributed enough to become entitled to regular payments. He promised to propose special welfare supplements, which would not come from the Social Security fund, to help the "truly needy" whose benefits were cut. But looming even larger is the fact that the financial...
Crime. The White House feels that new laws to fight violent crime are both necessary and politically popular. One sure aspect of the package Reagan plans to offer: an attack on the drug problem through both tougher enforcement and new narcotics information projects. Interestingly, the crime package might also contain provisions to promote higher employment among urban youths through tax breaks for inner-city enterprises...
...series of events that apparently influenced Sadat's decision not to go to Austria began two weeks ago when customs officials in Vienna stopped two Palestinians whose luggage was found to contain an arsenal of five automatic weapons and six hand grenades. Intelligence sources believe that the two were members of a reborn Black September, and that their probable aim was to assassinate Sadat. The Palestinian radicals have been at odds with him ever since he negotiated a peace treaty with Israel, and their goal is to keep the Israeli-Arab conflict alive in the hope that Israel will...
...House bill also contains a proviso that would halt Watt's tentative plan to sell the oil and gas rights to four oceanic basins off the northern California coast. The tracts are in the middle of rich commercial fishing grounds and are home to several species of threatened marine life. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates that the basins contain only about 300 million bbl. of crude, or roughly twelve days' worth of the nation's oil needs. Environmentalists have been joined in the battle to prevent sale by some conservative Republicans, who feel that the auction would...