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plays q recital at George
town University this after
noon, placed second in the
Merriwether Post Contest of
1858. Recently he attained
the Nieman-Marcus Award
in the Van Cliburn Interna-
tional Piano Competition
held in Fort Worth. Tex, for
the best performance Of Lee
HOiby's Capriccio on Five
Notes, which each contestant
had to learn especially for
the competition. He will play
it at this recital. Wash
ington Composer John Ste
phens, who has joined the
music faculty at George
Washington University, will
have his Symphony No. /, a
one-movement work, per-
formed for the first time
when the CIV orchestra
plays under George Steiner's
direction at Lisner on Thurs
day at $3.50 pm.
The National Folk Festival
Association, which has pre-
sented annual festivals in 10
cities across the country since
1884, inaugurates It's first
season Of Festival Concerts at
Lisner Auditorium on Friday.
The performers will be The
Highwaymen, young vocal
group just out of college,
whose recording, Michael"
sold over q million copies. 1t
all began. so the release runs.
at q fraternity party four
years ago. which Just goes to
show you.
The ward University
Cultural Series at CramtOn
Auditorium on the campus
continues with the third mu-
steal event Of its season, the
duo-piano team Of Pierre Luz
bOShutz and Genia NemenOff,
Saturday, at $3.50 pm. The
new opera by BENJAMIN
Britten, "The Turn OF The
Screw" is promised for Sun
day, February 10. Music
on the TV this week brings
the National Gallery Orches-
ira under Richard Bales to
the screen on Wednesday
evening. 7::30 to $3.50 CWTOP-
g.. 1t is the second of four
programs from the Gallery
to be shown by WTOP-9 this
season.
Irwin BaZeIOn's "TeStimo-
NAL to a Big City," will have
its world premiere in Con-
stitutiOn Hall on Tuesday
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TUESDAY

NATIONAL GALLERY ORCHESTRA,
Richard Bales, conductor Francis {.
Hammond Hish School, 464B Semi.
nary road, Alexandria, s;45 and
II am Music by Beethoven, Em-
mett-Bales, William, BiEet, Falla,
Sousa, Hewitt-Bales. also an orches-
trail demonstration.
GUIDO M0NsUINo. violin; John
Martin, cello. Rose d'Amore Mason,
harpsichQrd, City Tavern, 3@OB NJ
street NV, 3 pm, Concert OF
baroaue music presented for Wash
lngton CHAPTER National Society Of
Arts and Letters.
PHoSY oRcHEsTR1, Emerson
Head, conductor. Boloist; Joel her
ysrSity q Maryland. pm over
ture to Egmont, Beethoven Con-
certo for Violin and Orchestra,
Bloch symphony No / In 6, bee
lhoven. Dance Rhythms, on. IS,
RieEger
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell, conductor Soioist
nuEEiero Rect violin, Constitution
Hail, $40 pm. Testimonial 10 q
Bic City Bagclon Premiere Violin
Concerto, Paganini. symphony No
q In y Minor, Op. "a, Tehalkoysky
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Williams, FallA, Bizet, Sousa, He
witt-Bales.
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE SYM.
PHONY ORCHESTRA. GEORGE
WARRINGTON UNIVERSITY GLEE
CLUB. CAPT. Robert l.. Landers,
conductor. soloists: Betty waller,
soprano. 10 Anne FOLSOM, eontralto,
william DuPree, tenor; Paul Carter,
baritone. Lisner Auditorium. $3.50
pm, The Messiah, Handel
ADELE MARCUS, piano. The Phillips
Collection, 500 pm. Sonata In p
Sharp, on, rs, Beethoven. Sonata
" h.FlaI Op, ll9 Beethoven; IN
mierel; Three Etudes, Oh. \,
seriabin; Etudes symphoniaues, op
10, BchumAnn.
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well nave Important lmpnca-
tons for it's future.
Realizing that the fate Of
opera in years to come lies
in the hands of those who
are attending classes in the
public schools today, the So
ciety last week launched a
Youth Opera Program"
Through the Eugene and
Agnes E. Meyer Foundation.
the Opera Society was given
an opportunity to tell stu
dents from the public, pri-
vate, and parochial schools
Of the local area something
about Puccini's "Gianni
Schicchi" and Ravel's LEN
FAINT ct les Sortileges," a dou-
BILE bill to be presented for
the public-at-large on De-
cember ID, 16, and II in
Lisner Auditorium W
Five "OperaIOgs"
The Opera Society con-
Quoted five so-called "Op-
eralogs" during the last week
in school auditoriums pro-
vided jointly by the d. c.
Public Schools and the Of
flee of Education Of the
Archdiocese of Washington.
Youngsters heard informal
talks about opera production
problems, had the Puccini
and the Ravel pieces ex-
planned to them, and listened
to actual excerpts performed
by three young Washington
area artists who have par
ticipated in oSw productions
as members of the chorus.
In French classes, the COL
cite libretto for the Ravel
opera became a regular as
signment, and in art classes,
special attention was paid
to the Florentine masters Of
the Renaissance, since the
Puccini supposedly takes
place during the 18th CEN
fury in Florence.
Class Of 1000
The "Operalogs" were in
preparation for a special
youth performance sched-
uled for the afternoon of
December Is which is ex-
pected to draw an audience
of around a thousand teen
ayers.
The idea for the youth
Opera Program" grew out of
the dress rehearsal Of last
seasons production of THE
Magic Flute" witnessed by
hundreds Of junior and senior
high schoolers as guests of
the society.
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NEWS OF MUSIC
Youth Opera Program
A Needed Experiment
BY IRVING LOWENS
Star Music Critic

One Of the worst diseases affecting grand opera in the
United States is snobbism Too many go be seen rather
than to see; two few have any real conception Of what
taking place the stage.
Opera expensive and complicated If is have any
true vitality in this country larger and informed
audience for it is essential
1t is, therefore, very heartening expert
men recently started by the local Opera Society which may
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blue swirl Of water, fish, per-
haps an eel, and vegetation.
Nuns in the House of the
Spirit" is both sharp design
and complex comment in
thanking a savage mask face
with billowing wimples. He
has also contributed an orig
inal woodcut in two colors to
the catalogue, showing the
same grace and wit in q
small size.
Both the women in the
show work with the materials
of life, also. Roswitha Luder-
Vombeck paints "figurations"
that actually look more like
plant life, very tightly COM
posed. Irmgart WeSsel-Zum-
lob takes still life subjects in
exactly the possite direction.
She has five and each is
loosen and bigger than the
last. eliminating in a tryp-
itch Is feet across. Yet
taken together the pictures
are pleasurable in the record
they present of an artist in
tent upon a theme and its
development.
Three Decorators
We come finally to three
artists of considerable deco
rative value. In each case
there is the effort, sometimes
successful, to add to decora-
ton some significance of
something other than dy-
manic design. On the whole
the least successful in this
attempt Is Ham Trier. He
paints patterns of brush
strokes with a grace and in
vention that make most
American practitioners Of this
over-refined form seem inept.
Whatever it may fail to do,
the work Is lovely to look at
and that's a lot.
Josef FasSbender paints
fascinating structures in thin
paint, limits himself to three
or four colors, brown, red
and purple, or olive and
white. His finest work is
Little Hephaestus," presum-
able a reference to Aphrodite's
deceived avengeful husband.
a crippled metal worker.
Somehow all of those notes
can be found in the totally
abstract structure of color
and crushed forms.
Out of a Hat
Gerhard Wind practices
geometric abstraction in a
way that recalls Charles
Sheeler, Ralston and Edmund
Lewandowski. Planes Of light
and dark are played against
each other to produce the
effect, with no representa-
ton. Of extremely modern
notwithstanding establish
mentS. The pictures are
highly organized and usually
come strictly together to a
central area. Then. In the
largest work. he scatters the
parts against very carefully
planned receding planes Of
green, blue. white. In con-
text it's like a magician's
climactic trick, surprise within
surprise. A highly cerebral,
highly rewarding artist.
In short the show succeeds
In doing a very difficult
combination Of two things.
It demonstrates the institu-
tons Observation-Disclosures and
interest in what is said TO be
new. But 1t also does the
much more difficult thing OF
bringing together the varied
excellences Of artists worth
voiir time
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PERMANENT COLLECTIONS

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avenue NV. Daily. 10 am. to 4:30
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closed MONDAY
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WEDNESDAY

ELIAS LOPEZ, piano. pan American
Union. $3.50 pm, Rondo In G, Op
~ No. 1 Beethoven Sonata In =.
Sharp. OBJ, ~, Beethoven; Sonata
IN A-FlAt on ITO. Rondo In q,
or 81 No. Q, Beethoven Sonata In
G Minor. on III Beethoven
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell, conductor. Boloist
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ART AND ARTISTS -
German Art Of Today at Corcoran
ART AND ARTISTS
BY FRANK GETLEIN
Star Art Critic

These may be wonderful
times for German industrial
lists, but the German nation
has yet to recover from the
act Of cultural suicide it
committed by turning to Hit
Ter. It is not easy to get your
head back on once you've
cut 1t off.
The seriousness of the sui
eide may be measured at the
Corcoran Gallery Of Arts
current exhibition, Sixteen
German Artists" The show,
assembled in Germany last
summer by Corcoran Direc-
tor Hermann Warner Will
liams, jr.. offers a fair
sample Of what goes on in
contemporary German art.
The range Is considerable.
There is a certain amount Of
juvenile pretension being
passed off as the last word
from the spirit world. There
is some excellent use of
purely abstract shapes and
colors in space. There is
some very decent post
abstract figurative painting
and printmaking.
But there is nothing re-
motely resembling the power,
the unity and the sheer Joy
in art that German painting
had in this century until the
NaZis killed 1t. All that life is
gone by a stroke Of the pen
and it will be a long time
coming back.
Lunatic Fringe
The lunatic fringe Of
contemporary German paint
ing, we'll represented in the
show, suggests at moments
that the formidable talents
Of Moholy- Macy - boundless
curiosity. great technical dex-
terity, sharp wit and pretty
invention-has been picked
up from the ground by a
heavy : handed youth who
hasn't the slightest idea Of
how they work. 1t is as If
Prospero's wand were recov-
from the sea by Caliban.
A case in point is Otto
Piene. He does smoke paint
ings," which presumably are
made by letting smoke mark
a canvas the way children
used to let it coat the bottom
of a dish in a H lloween
game. Smoke being the fairly
limited material it is, this
makes for spotty canvaSes
and Herr Piene is Johann on
the spot. He has one large
spot on white, three smaller
ones on red and a string of
seven across the middle of a
white canvas. A sillier ar
ray Of paintings would be
hard to find, but their justi-
fication is clear enough. If
the artist is to be a seer, the
prophet of his time, then
the chance marks of smoke
are more likely to foretell
the future than anything he
does on purpose. It's the
same as with ea-leaves. Too
much art Of too many coun-
tries these days is based on
the notion of the artist as
fortune-teller.
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CULTURE IN
CALDWELL, IDAHO

Now that the clamor and
shouting have som ew h a t
abated and the closed-circuit
telecast to raise funds for
the National Cultural Center
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SUNDAY. DECEMBER 0

tFor Further Details, Consult Next
Sundays Listiugs)
CHRIST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
CHOIR, ALFRED y. NeumAnn, con-
duetor Christ CONGREGATIONAL Church,
1928 colesville road, Silver Bprlna,
H'ih and 1913 an.
RAPsODIA RoMINA, RoumAnlan Ma.
lIonal Folk Ensemble. Constitution
Hall y nm,
ALL SOULS UNITARIAN CHURCH
CHOIR, Karl lAlvorson, conductor
All Souls Church, 18th and Harvard
streets NV, . pm
VOICES, INC, octet Of New York Uni.
yersity Presidential Arms, 1890 q
Strset NV 4 pm
FAIRfAx CHORAL SOCIETY, Fred
WyEal conductor Fairfax Method.
lat Church, University drive and
straifotd avenue. Fairfax, y pm
tn. ,,, sAIN n..,oI ITis os,.TP1 ano d h,,
\ nm.
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Light Ballet

Herr Piene also has a light
ballet" for our amusement, q
flow of lights cast changing
ly upon a wall. People have
been manufacturing "ballets"
of electric light for at least
40 years; this one is no worse
than others and certainly no
better. 1t is distinguished
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SATURDAY

LUBOsHUTz a NEMENOFF. duo
planists, cramton Auditorium, How
ard University, $3.50 pm, Pfosram
not available.
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TOMORROW

GALLERY ORCHESTRA.
RICHARD BALLS, conductor Francis
6 Hammond HlRh School. iAl6
Seminary I'd, Alexandria, Gas and
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chiefly by the authors COM
ment that he has "discov-
cred" light and darkness, to
which modest claim one can
only say. Congratulations.
Associated with Herr Piene
In the publication of the APP
propriately named Zero" is
Heinz Mack, represented in
the show by several paint
ings of black on white some
what in the manner of organ
pipe end-papers in the days
of de luxe book bindings.
Herr Mack also has a five
foot high Light Relief"
which is an aluminium sheet
with hammered indentatlons.
The message seems to be
that If you bang away at a
sheet of aluminium with a
ball-peane hammer, you can
make by hand a cookie sheet
as good as the ones the fac
tory makes at one blow.
Lively Disinterest
The chief other bold in
ventor in the show is Rup-
precht Geiger, whose chief
invention is the placing of
a rough black circle against
a flat background Of RED,
which he sometimes varies
by having black on blue. In
his catalogue introduction
the German critic notes that
Herr Geiger is quite unin-
terested in paint" He is also,
apparently, quite uninterest-
ed in what he paints on. His
painting called Number 1853"
has a loose, floppy surface,
which creates a couple of
Implanted diagonals of shad-
ow. These are the liveliest
things in his group.
That pretty we'll wraps up
the new looks on board. Plain
old fashioned schmeerkunst
is represented by Peter Brun-
ing, Fred Thieler and Hans
Kaiser, with the last employ
ing a system Of black squig-
giles on various coloys that
suggests Jackson Pollock a
little. The show has two hot
texture men, Karl Fred Dab
men. who has one assemblage
Of corrugated cardboard that
can't last, and Heinz Rein
hold Kohler, who does as
semblages Of what look to be
short sections Of cutoff cop
per pipe set on end and i'm
mersed in some thick paint
or paint substitute. Copper
is more durable than card
board every time, but beyond
that Herr Kohler's surfaces
have great interest. They
manage to suggest something
more than themselvesIlunar
landscapes or we'll bombed
earthscapes.
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is history, one can note that
the metropolis Of Caldwell,
Idaho population 10000,
now boasts a genuine center
for the performing arts while
the Nations Capital still has
nothing but promises.
An 800 seat auditorium
designed. tuned and tested
by Bolt, Beranek and New
man, the firm responsible for
Philharmonic Hall in Lincoln
Center) was recently COM
pleted on the campus Of the
College Of Idaho at a cost of
100000.
Multi-purpose Jewett Audi
torium was planned to allow
the entire student body (733)
and faculty to assemble for
chapel; to permit the staging
OF plays, musical comedies,
and other works; to serve as
a concert hall; to accommo-
date small functions in a
side chapel, and to house art
exhibitions in corridors and
exhibition rooms.
Two concerts by the Amer
lean Symphony Orchestra of
Los Angeles drew two full
houses-the first made up of
students only, and the sec
ond made up of non-collegiate
Caldwellites.
Flexing its cultural muscles,
Caldwell is now making eff
forts to entice national tour
ing groups to visit the COW
country.
ARE AMERICANS CULTURE
VULTURES? .~.ts
A new. survey, conducted
by Arnold Mitchell. an econ
omist attached to the STAN
ford Research Institute in
Menlo Park, Calf, reveals
that there are more piano
players in the country than
there are fishermen.
Mr.. Mitchell claims that
twice as many people attend
concerts and recitals as ma
jor league baseball games.
and that the 80 million of us
who play musical instru-
ments are the most nu-
merous among the so mil
lion who bring what he calls
the "do-it-yourself" spirit to
the arts.
The economist credits Gin
slant success products" such
as chord attachments for
pianos for the surge of inter-
est in music, noting that
these devices come close to
making a pro out of a dub
ber."
II find it somehow quaint"
unused Mr.. Mitchell, that
more servicemen visiting New
York go to the Museum of
Modern Art than to any
other attraction except the
Empire State Building"
ANY other attraction?
= y y
NEWS FROM HERE-Pi-
anist Arthur FennimOre, a
Rudolf Serkin pupil who
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FRIDAY

FRIDAY MORNING MUSIC CLUB.
Powell Auditorium, Cosmos Club,
Belle Kuhn, clarinet; Dorothy ETler'
bAssoon: Divertimento in B-Flat.
X, 43gb No. g. Mozart. Charlotte
Dixon, eontralto: Frank Akers,
piano: Kindertotenlieder Mailer,
Maria stoesser, piano: organ Pre-
lude in O Minor. Baeh-siloti: Little
on. 10 No. ~, Chopin: Ballade
No. 2 in r, op. ~, chopin.
The FESTIVAL WINDS melvin Kap-
Ian Ronald Roseman, oboes: Philip
nsi S RSSs sha STri. New
FrosiIes' Howard Miiiysr. French
hornsl' Library Of CONGRESS. $50
pm piyertimento n p Haydn;
stf straw sl,S'' TRIO ou Tor two oSo,s I and
4 as Anss np fop two 0p oboe. ana
bassoon. kufie: pivertimento in y,
X gSS. for two boes, two bassoons,
two horns, Mozart
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Howard Mitchell, conductor So
loist. Rusgiero Rieci, violin. Rich
ard MONTGOMERY n. g.. Rockville,
$3.50 9,m. Repeating Thursdays
NATIONAL FOLK FESTIVAL Ass0-
CITATION Concert Lisner Auditor
Jun, $3.50 pm. Inaugural concert,
featuring The Hiahwaymen,
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Cheerful Printmaker

Rather more cheerful is the
printmaker, HAP Grieshaber,
who makes woodcuts up TO
seven and a half feet high
and does so with little loss Of
the force OF the medium. "The
Sea" is a lovely green and
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PROGRAMS OF THE WEEK
THURSDAY

RugEierO Rieei. violin. Constitution
Han $40 pm. Repeating Tuesdays
program.
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New Artist

Having thus surveyed a
number Of latest things with
out which no foreign group
exhibition can hold UP its
head. Sixteen German Art
lists" passes on to its more
important business. It pre-
sents US with some painters.
and one printmaker. whose
work is both interesting and
worth examining from the
point Of view Of artistic merit.
The human figure is promi-
nently present In the work
Of only two Of the painters
and the printman. Joannes
Gecelli has very large. very
dark paintings on which.
typically. he creates a surface
much like old slate: on this
appears, as II scratched. the
image Of a misshapen female
nude In profile. effective in
suggesting ancient cave art.
Paul Wunderlich also dis.
torts the figure. swelling
parts of limbs. elongating
others. and posing his figure
against dim space. There is
melancholy and q hint OF
horror. which becomes more
than a hint in the painting
Of two hung men. titled 40
July. 1914" presumably COM
memorating those who we're
executed after the attempt TO
kill Hitler.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-12-02

NEWS FROM HERE-Pi-
anist Arthur FennimOre, a
Rudolf Serkin pupil who
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NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA.
Howard Mitchell, conductor Soloist.
RuEgierO Rieci, violin. Lisner Audi
torium, 2 pm. Repeating Tuesdays
program.
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
ORCHESTRA, George steiner, con-
ductor. Lisner Auditorium, $50 pm.
Concerto Crosse for Christmas,
Maniredini: Symphony No. in one
movement. Stephens (Premierel;
symphony No. 3 in E-Flat, Op. So,
Beethoven.
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA,
Howard Mitchell, conductor. Soloist:
Rugglero Ricci, violin. Richie Coll
scum, University Of Maryland, $50
pm. Prelude TO Lohengrin, Wag-
ner: Violin Concerto, Paganini;
symphony No. 8 In B Minor, Tehai-
kovsky.
DONALD HEFNER, oboe; ROBERT
PARIS, harpsiehord, Clinical Cen
ter Auditorium, National Institutes
OF Health, Bethesda, $3.50 pm. Pro-
gram not available,
Evening star., 1962-10-03
Ghunu Chief
Lushes Pact
On Market

ACCRA, Ghana, Oct. 3 (AP)
President Kwame Nkrumah
yesterday called the. European
Common Market an instrument
to carry out neo-colonialism in
Africa.
1T must be avoided like the
plague" Mr.. Nkruma hsaid in
a policy speech to Parliament.
In an attack against what
he termed collective exploita-
ton of underdeveloped African
countries, Mr.. Nkrumah said
Ghana did not intend to sin
gle out any one country.
"Our stand is aginst the sys-
tenn, the forces internal and
external, which exercise impe-
rialist, colonialist and neo-
colonialist control over our af-
fairs and are determined to
foil our attempts to reshape
the destiny Of our continent, "
he asserted.
He said his socialist govern
ment is awaiting a report by
experts lent by the United
States Government to advise
on how best a Ghana invest
ment bank should be set up.
Evening star., 1962-10-03

PARIS, Oct. 3 (AP).-The
National Assembly squared off
today for a showdown with
President de Gaulle on his move
to bypass the constitution. New
elections could result.
Anti-Gaullist deputies filed a
motion of censure against Pre-
mier Georges Pompidou yester-
day, but they really were strik-
ing at Gen. de Gaulle and the
referendum he is sponsoring to
change the method of electing
presidents. The deputies con-
tend Parliament must give its
approval first to the change.
If party lines hold fast, the
sponsors with the backing of
Communist and right-wing
splinter parties will unseat Mr..
Pompidou, raising the pos
sibility of new elections that
once more will test Gen. de
Gaulle's popularity. The last
elections were in 1858.
AS the deputies prepared to
Evening star., 1962-10-03
Assembly Showdown
With De GouiIe Near

open debate on the censure
motion Thursday, the fight
shaped UP as one between Gen,
de Gaulle and the Parliament
he sheared of considerable
power with the constitutional
reform Of 1858. A vote may
come Thursday night or Fri
day morning.
Gen. de Gaulle can name a
new Premier without consulting
Parliament If Mr.. Pompidou
meets defeat in the Assembly
This was provided in the 1853
constitution. But he is expected
to dissolve the Assembly and
call for new elections if the
censure motion carries. This
would give him a chance to
test his popularity versus Par
liament's.
There will be a test In any
case. Yesterday the Cabinet set
October % as the date for a
referendum on Gen. de Gaulle's S
plan to change the constitution