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Godoy, a former Labor Minister who resigned last April to run for President, said that he withdrew because the government did not meet his party's longstanding conditions for participating in the election, including loosening press censorship laws and opening a national dialogue with Sandinista critics. "This is only a reaffirmation of what the Liberals have been saying for the past few months," said Godoy of his move. "There is a moment when you have to make a decision...
...opened at the New York City Opera this season, all the signs pointed to a disaster. The work was little known, and had been dismissed by earlier generations as inconsequential. The intended conductor, C. William Harwood, died unexpectedly last April at the age of 36, and the lead soprano withdrew. During the dress rehearsal, Tenor Barry McCauley objected to Conductor Allesandro Siciliani's tempos and stormed off, while Siciliani threatened to take the next plane back to Italy. Peace was restored, but two hours before the curtain, a can of drain cleaner exploded in the face of the orchestra...
...inability of a news organ to be sure that it has not been used was cited last week by the West German newsweekly Der Spiegel. The publication withdrew, for a no-cash settlement, a libel suit that it had brought in Britain against the defunct newsweekly Now. The London-based magazine had reprinted in 1981, a few months before it folded, a speech by its owner, Sir James Goldsmith, in which he accused the left-leaning Spiegel of having been manipulated by the KGB while researching a series of 1962 articles that challenged the integrity of Franz Josef Strauss, then...
...missiles in Western Europe (see box). In June, Moscow proposed holding yet another round of discussions, this one aimed at preventing the militarization of outer space. But when the Reagan Administration quickly accepted, on the condition that the talks be broadened to include offensive weapons, Moscow in effect withdrew the invitation. The effort to limit the doomsday arsenals of both sides has been stalled ever since...
...years after the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, some 22,000 Israeli troops remain in southern Lebanon. Their purpose: to keep Palestine Liberation Organization fighters from filtering back and posing a fresh threat to Israel's northern border towns and settlements. But since the Israeli army in Lebanon withdrew from the Beirut area south to the Awali River a year ago, 60 soldiers have been killed and 469 wounded in Lebanese attacks. Every month brings about 70 to 80 new assaults. "We are on a spiral to nowhere," says a prominent Sidon citizen. "The more the Israelis are attacked...