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...copies of the rave by Los Angeles Times Critic Leonard Feather, "hoping they wouldn't print a retraction." They didn't, and in the ensuing three months Zadora's U.S. concert tour has radically improved her image: cinema's laughingstock has suddenly blossomed into a serious singer of such pop classics as It Had to Be You, Maybe This Time and For Once in My Life. An album, Pia and Phil (short for Philharmonic), has also been well received. "I'm thrilled," says Zadora. "A whole new world is opening up." Apparently so. In two weeks she will make...
...South Arabia was granted its independence by the British government. In time it became known as the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen, or simply South Yemen, to distinguish it from the Yemen Arab Republic to the north. The only Arab country that explicitly calls itself Marxist, South Yemen (pop. 2 million) forged close ties with the Soviet Union and allowed the Soviets to establish a military base at Aden and a high-tech listening past on the island of Socotra, 300 miles offshore...
BORN. To Olivia Newton-John, 37, pop singer who has shed her perky PG image in recent albums (Physical, Soul Kiss); and her husband of a year, Matt Lattanzi, 27, teen-hunk actor (Grease 2): a daughter, their first child; in Los Angeles. Name: Chloe. Weight...
Will County, Ill., last week closed its forest preserves until it can get a new liability policy on them--if that can be done at all--and Blue Lake, Calif. (pop. 1,200), has shut its skating rink, parks and tennis court. Hundreds of other towns in California and in New York State are "going bare." That is, they simply cannot get liability insurance...
...situation is studded with an endless variety of similar horror stories (see boxes). Among the most prominent are those that involve municipal services. The city council of Blue Island, Ill. (pop. 22,000), last October voted down a 30% increase in property taxes thought necessary to pay rocketing liability-insurance premiums, and the town expects to self-insure for the 1986-87 fiscal year, taking a chance that a large judgment might force taxes up anyway. Five counties in Missouri closed their jails for several weeks last fall, sending some prisoners elsewhere for incarceration and releasing minor offenders outright...