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161; Co-founder and organizer, Concerts de Musique Française 1942-64; Adviser, Delius Trust 1961-; mem. and Pres. Int. Music Juries, Geneva and Montreux 1963-. Publications: (Editor) Ernest Newman's Essays from the World of Music 1956; More Essays from the World of Music 1958; Essays on Music from The Listener 1967. Leisure interests: horticulture, bibliophily. Address: 8 Methuen Park, London, N.10, England. Telephone: 01-883 3783.
3APRÓ, Antal; Hungarian politician; b. 8 Feb. 1913, Szeged; joined Communist Party 1931; Pres. of Building Workers' Assn. 1945; Gen. Sec. Trade Union Council 1948-51; Minister of Building Materials Industry 1952-53; Deputy Prime Minister 1953-56, 1961-71; Minister of Industry 1956-57; First Deputy Prime Minister 1957-61; Perm. Rep. to Council for Mutual Econ. Aid 1959-71; Pres. Nat. Council, Patriotic People's Front 1956-57; Speaker of Parl. 1971-; Chair. Hungarian-Soviet Friendship Soc. 1971-; mem. Politburo, Socialist Workers' Party. Address: National Assembly, H-1357 Kossuth L. tér, Budapest, Hungary.
5AQUARONE, Stanislas Raoul Adrien, Ph.D.; Australian international civil servant; b. 13 Nov. 1915, Melbourne; m. 1941; two s two d.; ed. Univ. of Toronto Schools, Univ. of Toronto and Columbia Univ., N.Y.; fmr. teacher of French language and literature, Hamilton Coll. and in Columbia, Panama and Toronto Univs.; Sec. Int. Court of Justice 1948-51, First Sec. 1951-60, Deputy Registrar 1960-66, Registrar 1966-. Publication: The Life and Works of Emile Littré (1801-1881) 1958. Address: International Court of Justice, Peace Palace, The Hague (Office); Benoordenhoutsweg 93, The Hague, Netherlands (Home).
7AQUINO, Francisco, M.P.A.; Salvadorian agricultural engineer and economist; b. 12 Sept. 1919; s. of Francisco Aquino and Lucila Herrera; m. María Dalila Negro 1946; three s. one d.; ed. Coll. for Agronomic Studies, San Salvador and Harvard Univ., U.S.A. Land Appraiser, Mortgage Bank, San Salvador 1942; Analyst, Nat. Planning Assn., Washington, D.C. 1943; Man. Fed. of Rural Credit Cooperatives, San Salvador 1944; Adviser to Minister of Economy, Guatemala 1946-47; Dir. Econs. Research Dept., Ministry of Agriculture, San Salvador 1947-48; Economist, Econ. Comm. for Latin America (ECLA) 1948-56; Chief, Cereals Section, Food and Agricultural Org. (FAO), Rome 1956-59; Dir. ECLA-FAO Econs. Div., Santiago de Chile 1959-61; Minister of Agriculture, El Salvador April-June 1961; Pres. Banco central de Reserva de El Salvador, and concurrently, Gov. for El Salvador, in Int. Monetary Fund (IMF), in Int. Bank for Reconstruction and Devt. (IBRD—World Bank) and Affiliate in Cen. American Bank for Econ. Integration, also mem. Nat. Planning Council and Pres. Cen. American Monetary Council 1961-66; Technical Man. Inter-American Devt. Bank, Washington, C.D. 1967-68; Exec. Dir. UN-FAO World Food Programme 1968-76; Chair. Joint Board of Govs. IMF-IBRD 1964; Order of Christopher Columbus. Leisure interests: music and wildlife.
9ARAFAT, Yasser (pseudonym of Mohammed Abed Ar'ouf Arafat); Palestinian resistance leader; b. 1929, Jerusalem; ed. Cairo Univ.; joined League of Palestinian Students 1944, mem. Exec. Cttee. 1950, Pres. 1952-56; formed, with others, Al Fatah movt. 1956; engineer in Egypt 1956, Kuwait 1957-65; Pres. Exec. Cttee. of Palestine Nat. Liberation Movement (Al Fatah) June 1968-; Chair. Exec. Cttee. Palestine Liberation Org. 1968-, Pres. Cen. Cttee., Head, Political Dept. 1973-; Gen. Commdr. Palestinian Revolutionary Forces; Joliot-Curie Gold Medal, World Peace Council Sept. 1975. Address: Palestine Liberation Organization, Colombani Street, Off Sadat Street, Dr. Raji Nasr Building, Ras Beirut, Lebanon.
11ARAFUNE, Seijuro; Japanese politician; mem. House of Reps.; Chair. House Budget Cttee. 1976; Minister of Transport July-Oct. 1966; Minister of State, Dir.-Gen. Administrative Man. Agency Sept.-Dec. 1976, 1977-79; Liberal-Democratic Party. Address: c/o Administrative Management Agency, Tokyo, Japan.
13ARAGON, Louis; French novelist, poet and essayist; b. 3 Oct. 1897, Paris; m. Elsa Kagan (died 1970); ed. Univ. of Paris; one of founders and fmr. leader Surrealist Movement, now leader Socialistic Realism Movement; Sec. French section of Int. Assn. of Writers for Defence of Culture; mem. Cttee. of Dirs. Europe review; Dir. fmr. Paris daily Ce Soir; Dir. Les Lettres Françaises (weekly) 1953-72; mem. Communist Party; mem. Lenin Int. Peace Prize Cttee.; mem. Acad. Goncourt 1967-68; served with Tank Div. 1939-40, prisoner of war, escaped to unoccupied France, worked in Resistance movt.; Hon. mem. American Acad. of Arts and Letters 1972; Order of October Revolution (U.S.S.R.). Publications: Novels: Anicet, Le libertinage, Le paysan de Paris, Les cloches de Bâle, Les beaux quartiers (awarded Prix Renaudot), Les voyageurs de l'Impériale, Aurélien, La semaine sainte, La mise à mort, Blanche ou l'oubli; essays: Traité du style, Les aventures de Télémaque, Pour un réalisme socialiste; poems: Feu de joie, Le mouvement perpétuel, La grande gaité, Persécuté persécuteur, Hourra l'oural, Le crève-coeur, Les yeux d'Elsa, La Diane française, Les yeux et la memoire, Elsa, Le fou d'Elsa, Les chambres, Poème du temps qui ne passe pas, Les poètes; history: Histoire de l'U.R.S.S. de 1917-1960. Address: 56 rue de Varenne, 75007 Paris, France.
15ARAM, Abbas; Iranian diplomatist; b. 1906; ed. Teheran and Europe; entered diplomatic service 1931; Asst. Chief, Third Political Div., Foreign Ministry 1943; First Sec. Berne 1945; First Sec., Counsellor, and Chargé d'affaires, Washington 1946, 1949 and 1950; Dir. Fourth Political Div., Foreign Ministry 1951; Counsellor, Embassy, Baghdad 1953; Chargé d'affaires and Minister, Washington 1953 and 1954-56; Dir.-Gen. Political Affairs, Foreign Ministry 1958; Amb. to Japan 1958, concurrently to Republic of China; Minister of Foreign Affairs 1959-60; Amb. to Iraq 1960-62; Minister of Foreign Affairs 1962-67; Amb. to U.K. 1967-69, to People's Repub. of China 1972-75, also accred. to Dem. Repub. of Viet-Nam and to Dem. People's Repub. of Korea; returned to Teheran 1975; Senator 1977-79.
17ARAÑA OSORIO, Gen. Carlos Manuel; Guatemalan army officer and politician; b. 17 July 1918; fmr. Commdr. Zacapa Brigade, Guatemala Army; fmr. Amb. to Nicaragua; mem. Movimiento de Liberación Nacional (MLN); Pres. of Guatemala 1970-74. Address: c/o Oficina del Presidente, Guatemala City, Guatemala.
19ARAPOV, Boris Aleksandrovich; Soviet composer; b. 12 Sept. 1905, St. Petersburg (now Leningrad); s. of Aleksandr Borisovich Arapov and Yelizaveta Arapova; m. Tatiana Todorova 1933; two d.; ed. Leningrad Conservatoire; teacher at Leningrad Conservatoire 1930-; Prof. 1940-, Head of Dept. Composition; Exec. mem. Leningrad Section, Soviet Composers' Union; awards include Honoured Worker of Arts of Uzbek S.S.R. 1944, of R.S.F.S.R. 1957, Order of Red Banner of Labour 1953. Major compositions: (works for opera and ballet) Hodja Nasreddin (Uzbek comic opera) 1944, Frigate "Victory" (opera) 1957, Rain (chamber opera) 1965, Portrait of Dorian Gray (ballet) 1971; (orchestral works) Tadzhik Suite 1938, Russian Suite 1951, 6 Pieces on Chinese Themes for Piano 1955, Free China (symphonic poem) 1959, Symphony No. 3 1962, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra 1964, Concerto for Full Symphony Orchestra 1969, Concerto for Violin, Piano, Percussion and Chamber Orchestra (In Memory of I. Stravinsky) 1973, Symphony No. 4 for Reciter, Baritone, Mezzo-Soprano, 2 Mixed Choirs and Full Symphony Orchestra (after verses by V. Briusov, B. Mayakovsky, S. Orlov, S. Shchipachev) 1975; (vocal orchestral works) Vocal Cycle for Tenor, Baritone and Orchestra (on verses by A. Pushkin) 1937, Vocal Cycle for Soprano, Tenor, and Nonet: "Four Times of Year" (on verses by Japanese Chokku) 1977; (orchestral chamber works) Humoresque for Piano 1937, 3 Pieces on Mongol Themes for Clarinet, Violin and Piano 1943, 6 Pieces on Chinese Themes for Piano 1955, Etude-Scherzo for Piano 1967, Sonata for Piano 1970, 3 Pieces for Piano 1970; (vocal chamber works) 4 Romances for Soprano and Piano (on verses by A. Blok) 1947-63, Negro Protest Songs for Voice and Jazz Orchestra 1940, Four Songs for Voice and Piano 1949, Soliloquy for Baritone 1969, "Monologue" for Baritone, Tuba, Percussion and Piano (on verses by A. Voznesensky) 1969, Four Sonnets by Petrarch for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano 1975, Second Sonata for Piano 1976. Leisure interests: travel, western European painting, oriental decorative art. Address: Prospekt Y. Gagarina 35, kv. 65, Leningrad 196142, U.S.S.R. Telephone: 2-93-82-63.
21ARARIPE MACEDO, Lieut.-Gen. Joelmir Campos de; Brazilian air force officer and politician; b. 16 Feb. 1909, Rio de Janeiro; s. of José Araripe Macedo and Zulmira Campos de Araripe Macedo; m. Maria de Lourdes Vianna 1934; one s. one d.; ed. Colégio Militar, Escola Militar and Escola Técnica do Exército; fmr. Instructor, Escola Técnica do Exército; Pres. Fábrica Nacional de Motores, Co-ordinating Cttee. of Int. Airport Project; Dir. Engenharia da Aeronáutica, Material Aeronáutica, Rotas Aéreas; mem. Industrial Devt. Comm., Nat. Petroleum Council; Insp.-Gen. of Aviation; Minister of Aeronautics 1972-; decorations from Brazil, Italy, France, Portugal, Ecuador, Bolivia, Korea, China, Paraguay, Colombia and Venezuela. Publications: various articles on aeronautical subjects. Leisure interest: reading practical works on aviation. Address: Ministério da Aeronáutica, Esplanada dos Ministérios, Bloco 2, Brasília, D.F., Brazil. Telephone: 23-0409, 23-1409, 23-2409.
23ARAÚJO, José Emilio Gonçalves, DR.AGRON.; Brazilian soil scientist; b. 8 Sept. 1922, Rio de Janeiro; s. of Antônio Araújo Fernández and Emerenciana Gonçalves; m. Laurinda Lopez 1946; one s. two d.; ed. Universidade Rural do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Universidade Federal Rural do Sul, Pelotas, Cornell Univ., N.Y., U.S.A.; acting Prof., Coll. of Agriculture, Universidade Federal de
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