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...double-barreled concert was to have been the feature attraction of a daylong festival celebrating the 28th anniversary of East Germany's birth as a Communist state. In one corner of East Berlin's huge Alexanderplatz, a Western-style rock group, Express Berlin, was performing before several hundred rapt young people. At the opposite end of the square, a Russian military band tootling patriotic marches competed unsuccessfully for the crowd's attention. Suddenly, the cacophony erupted into violence...
...election, he had to be hospitalized for inflammation of the heart membrane. Begin's physician, Dr. Shlomo Laniado, says his patient is again suffering from aftereffects of the March heart attack. His latest hospitalization followed an extremely active week in which Begin's schedule included a daylong tour of Yamit, one of Israel's new towns in northern Sinai, and a tension-filled meeting with U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis, in which Begin was informed in advance of the joint U.S.-Soviet statement. In a TV interview early last week, Laniado flatly blamed Begin's current illness...
...there will not be a recession, say members of TIME's Board of Economists, who gathered in Manhattan last week for a daylong session. Not all were satisfied with the outlook, by any means. Arthur Okun, senior fellow at Washington's Brookings Institution, noted that Washington policymakers, fearful that the rapid advance needed to cut unemployment would plunge the nation into still worse inflation, have kept the economy "on a tightrope." But the economists agreed to a man that business will come out of its summer slowdown-indeed, is already doing so-into a period of steady...
...site of the world-renowned Passion Play put on by a cast and crew of 1,400 villagers. So it has been ever since the 17th century, when the pageant was started after an epidemic of bubonic plague. During the last run in 1970, the 93 performances of the daylong Roman Catholic folk drama drew 530,000 visitors and blessed the village with a net profit of $7.8 million...
From Khartoum, Photographer David Burnett and I booked ourselves aboard a red and yellow bus that makes the daylong journey to Kassala, a Sudanese town that lies near the Eritrean border. For twelve hours, the bus hurtled through the open desert, crashing across giant potholes; the thermometer was constant-between...