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...begin Sunday, with Reagan playing host at a reception at New York City's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel for 150 leaders of delegations to the General Assembly session. Among other heads of state who planned to attend were Salvadoran President José Napoleón Duarte, Argentine President Raúl Alfonsín and the Sultan of Brunei. Gromyko planned to lead the Soviet delegation. Though it would be undiplomatic of Reagan and Gromyko to talk business at a social event, they will doubtless begin sizing each other up during small talk...
Those explanations dovetail nicely with the apparent rise in Gromyko's influence. He derives clout from long experience as the Kremlin's top diplomat and a flawless record of cleaving to the collective Politburo line. Says Uri Ra'anan, professor at Tufts University Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy: "I am astounded at Gromyko's authority. He has absolutely no political power base." Agrees Pipes: "By default, he has moved...
...people disappeared and hundreds of others were murdered and tortured. Last week the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces formally indicted and jailed Videla, 59, for his part in a program "based on methods and procedures that are manifestly illegal." The military decision was a relief to civilian President Raúl Alfonsín. Months of foot dragging by the Supreme Council had cast doubt on Alfonsín's ability to fulfill his longstanding promise to bring the junta members who governed during the dirty war to justice. Four former junta members have already been charged with...
...notes, opera librettos) similar to those of regular records. Already there are more than 800 titles available in the U.S. and even more in Europe and Japan. Among the best: Bizet: Carmen (Agnes Baltsa as Carmen, José Carreras as Don José, Berlin Philharmonic and Paris Opéra Chorus, Herbert von Karajan, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 3 CDs). Karajan's earlier Carmen, with Leontyne Price and Franco Corelli, was a full-throated spectacular in the grand-opera tradition. This one, 19 years later, reflects his current preference for smaller voices in an almost chamber-like setting. Baltsa...
...glow in the dark, an orange open to reveal a diamond in its center, a paper butterfly take flight and land against a wall, fresh and flat as new paint. In a dark, lush corner of the Garcia Marquez canvas one can see Erendira (pronounced Eh-ren-de-ra) and her dotty grandmother. They live alone, slave and exacting mistress of a crumbling manor, and when the house burns down, Grandma blames Erendira and takes the girl out to the desert to earn their keep on her back. Erendira's passive expertise as a prostitute makes her famous...