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...typical night of terror in the capital city. As Radio Uganda broadcast the news that Obote's Uganda People's Congress had won a majority in the new 126-seat parliament, the air was filled with the crackle of machine guns and the dull thud of exploding grenades. At the Speke Hotel, headquarters of the 60-member Commonwealth observer team that had monitored the voting, diplomats dove under the dining room tables. Asked why roaming, drunken soldiers were shooting up the city, a young private replied: "Because we are rejoicing." It was chilling to contemplate what the trigger...
Obote was openly backed by Muwanga as well as by Uganda's watchful patron, President Julius Nyerere of neighboring Tanzania. The U.P.C. appeared to have captured at least 66 seats in the 126-seat Parliament, compared with 44 for the Catholic-oriented Democratic Party (D.P.) of Paul Ssemogerere, 48, a U.S.-educated, longtime Obote adversary. The outcome was immediately contested by the D.P., with accusations that Obote had been steamrolled to victory. In reply, the Ugandan Army unleashed a two-hour barrage of gunfire in Kampala to intimidate Ssemogerere's angry supporters...
...Thomas Crooks, then master of Dudley House, walked up to him, Fernandez recalls, and said, "John, the Committee of Fifteen needs someone with a reasonable mind." Fernandez thought it over and decided to run in his House elections for a seat on the Committee...
...there were only three green marbles and you had to choose one of them in order to win. I was feeling kind of unlucky that day and I asked the president of Dudley House to choose for me." He walked away with a green marble and Fernandez had his seat on the committee...
...Death in Venice, a one-man show the company presented earlier this fall, used electronics to modify actor Bill Raymond's voice, metamorphosing its characteristics and its position. Far from undermining the effectiveness of dramatic performance, Breuer maintains that, properly directed, the amplifier can restore the theater: "The Loeb seats 550-plus. It's not that good acoustically, and the actors have to project like crazy. Do you know what happens to acting when it's projected?" It Loses truth. It hurts when you start to project Chekhov to a thousand-seat theater. I wanted something even more intimate than...