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Lardy Cherubs. But the exhibition includes whole roomfuls of provinciality, grading down to junk. No 17th century European painter could possibly have produced a sillier work than José Antolinez's trio of lardy, simpering cherubs posing as The Christian Soul Torn Between Vice and Virtue. No matter...
...back by the problems created by torn and bent bursar's cards at encoding tables at Monday's registration, Gibson has now set off on another tack, exploring the possibility of dropping the photographs on I.D. cards. This step would sharply reduce the cost of making and encoding cards, enabling Gibson to replace student cards annually...
...Europe and Japan. The "stability" of the international order depends on the containment of the liberation movements and the preservation of pro-US regimes in this strategic area more than in any other. Finally, a successful Persian Gulf intervention appears as the master-stroke that can reconstitute the Vietnam-torn fabric of the bipartisan domestic consensus on foreign policy...
...world"-received one delegation after another from Lebanon's rival political and confessional factions. Meanwhile, a team of Syrian, Palestinian and Lebanese officers monitored the cease-fire-the 23rd in the nine-month-old civil war-and managed to restore a measure of relative calm to the strife-torn country. Both the highly visible role played by Khaddam and the participation of Syrians on the truce teams were signs that Damascus has emerged, at least for the moment, as the most effective Arab power in the Middle East...
Burly Bodyguards. For his part, Vesco says he has torn up his American passport, but he refuses to make the formal declaration before a consul that is required to renounce U.S. citizenship. "Sure they would like me to walk in there," says Vesco. "There are quite a few cases of U.S. officials kidnaping and torturing people in Latin American countries." Vesco's $500,000 home in a San José suburb is surrounded by high walls with TV cameras mounted atop each corner. He rarely ventures outside without burly bodyguards, who often tote submachine guns. Recently a Vesco entourage...