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...frequently denouncing Israel. The World Jewish Congress co-sponsored the gathering, and one of its American leaders, Rabbi Arthur Hertzberg, even ventured that the conference might indicate "a reformed UNESCO." Sponsoring nations for UNESCO's Maimonides year, the 850th anniversary of his birth, include Pakistan, India, Cuba and Spain, which refuse to recognize the legitimacy of Israel, and the Soviet Union, whose mistreatment of Jews is an international issue...
...last Friday, Manuel Antonio Sanchez Perez was leaving a Madrid bank when three men jumped him. Sanchez, Cuba's deputy planning minister, who had been granted provisional asylum in Spain, fought furiously. "They're going to kill me!" he screamed as his pistolwaving assailants wrestled him into a waiting car driven by a woman accomplice. Some 30 to 50 bystanders quickly surrounded the auto. A cab pulled over and blocked the vehicle's escape while the crowd dragged Sanchez to safety, holding the would-be abductors until police arrived. All turned out to be Cuban embassy personnel, including the vice...
Watson plans to use next semester to train with the U.S. National Team--he has been a member since 1981--in Austin, Texas, for February's DDR Championships in East Germany, and for the World Aquatic Championships which will be held in Madrid, Spain...
...letters who considered himself foremost a poet but who was also a biographer, critic, translator and editor and is probably best known as a historical novelist, most memorably for I, Claudius (1934), a rich reconstruction of Roman life that became a hit mini-series in 1976; in Deia, Majorca, Spain. Graves began publishing his precise, sensuous lyrics while an officer in World War I, during which he was seriously wounded; he recounted that part of his life in the popular autobiography Goodbye to All That (1929). Among his most controversial works was The White Goddess (1948), an erudite but eccentric...
...access to the full use of the news media as a means of expressing themselves or imparting information." In Washington, Executive Director Dana Bullen of the World Press Freedom Committee declared, "The ruling should have great impact. It's the best thing since the zipper." Eleven Latin nations* and Spain are among the countries that require journalists to be licensed, typically through a colegio (similar to a trade union) controlled by the government. Advocates of licensing say the practice helps limit the profession to qualified candidates. Some journalists within the license-granting countries agree. Since doctors and lawyers must...