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...tactical tool to further their military aims. The Salvadoran army has been gaining ground in the countryside against the Marxist-led FMLN. For their part, the guerrillas have warned that they intend to bring the war back to the streets of San Salvador, the capital. CUBA Castro's Fugitive Guest...
...quiet young man named John Morgan (Tim McInnerny) is a surprise guest at a dinner party whose host is Wetherby's favorite schoolteacher, Jean Travers (Vanessa Redgrave). He strikes a spark somewhere inside Jean's loneliness. The next day he stops by, chats a bit, then puts a gun in his mouth and splatters his brains across her kitchen wall. The shock of this scene, which sends horror-show gasps through a movie house of jaded adults, also blasts the story back to 1953, dramatizing the abortive affair that the teenage Jean (played by Redgrave's daughter Joely Richardson...
...autumnal age of 85 this week, but in every other respect Aaron Copland seems to be basking in an Appalachian spring. To honor the quintessential American composer, public television will broadcast live on his birthday an all-Copland retrospective by the New York Philharmonic, led by Zubin Mehta and Guest Conductor Leonard Bernstein. The special performance will range from Copland's First Symphony (composed in 1928) to a newly orchestrated version of his recent piano piece, Proclamation, a span that delights the still octavely active octogenarian. "It is one of the most interesting programs of my work imaginable," says Copland...
Barbara Bel Geddes, matriarch of Dallas' Ewing clan, enters the front door at South Fork after a hard day of trying to hold her troubled TV family together. An uninvited guest is waiting for her in the living room. "Who are you?" demands Bel Geddes. "Why, I'm Miss Ellie," replies Donna Reed. A troubled look comes over Bel Geddes' face as the music swells to a cliff-hanger close. "But," she protests, "I'm Miss Ellie...
...Chinese outlook, TIME's Pacific Board invited its first guest economist from the People's Republic: Huan Xiang, the director general of Peking's Center for International Studies. Huan reported that Deng's reforms have been a tonic for the Chinese economy, but its runaway 12% growth rate is a bit more than the country can handle. The quality of many manufactured goods is suffering, and inflation is a disturbing 8%. A flood of imports has created a record trade deficit of more than $4 billion this year. Said Huan: "We have been on a spree of building too much...