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From the outset, Iraq has claimed that the nearly completed, $260 million French-built research reactor, scheduled to be activated this summer was intended only to train Iraqi scientists and technicians in nuclear technology. A facility was first discussed in 1974 by then French Premier Jacques Chirac and Iraq's Saddam Hussein. The final agreement led to the erection of the 70-MW reactor at the Tammuz nuclear center in the desert at El-Tuwaitha. It was supported by an 800-kW minireactor, separately housed and untouched by the raid, that was used for minor experiments and to prepare...
...Polish party had received its latest warning from a Soviet Central Committee increasingly disturbed over the course of Poland's "socialist renewal." The near ultimatum to the Poles came in the form of a toughly worded letter that, for the first time, criticized by name both Kania and Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. The Soviet threat, similar to one sent to the Czechoslovaks three days before Soviet tanks moved into Prague in 1968, exacerbated an open rift within the Polish Central Committee and elicited a stern warning to the Soviets from U.S. Secretary of State Alexander Haig. The U.S., said Haig...
DIED. Giuseppe Pella, 79, Italian economist who rose from sharecropper's son to the premiership, and who helped guide his country's economic policy for nearly three decades; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Rome. Resolutely antiCommunist, Pella served as Premier during a critical five-month period in 1953-54 when a border dispute with Yugoslavia over Trieste prompted him to make Italy's only postwar threat to use military force. As Foreign Minister in 1960, he once had a conversation with Nikita Khrushchev in which he rebuffed the Soviet Premier's contentions with a curt "Sorry...
...Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Alvin Epstein. The premier ART production--revived from the Yale years--stripped away decades' worth of accumulated glitter from Shakespeare's play, revealing a darker fairy world than we're used to. Epstein uncovered hidden streams of conflict--between fairy and fairy, fairy and man, man and woman--with the aid of Purcell's fine-woven Baroque score. These emphases, however, were just that; there were no placards. Costumes and sets had a somber beauty. No one could have left the Loeb feeling Shakespeare's text had been tampered with or betrayed...
...somber mood extended last week all the way to Cannes, where key industry figures from around the world gathered for the annual wheeling and movie dealing at the industry's premier film festival. High-rolling producers like Richard Zanuck still vied for choice tables at sidewalk cafés along the Boulevard de la Croisette, while aspiring starlets jousted for the attention of the camera-toting paparazzi. But Variety summed up the atmosphere in the headline: LACK OF ZEST AT CANNES FILM FEST...