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Sizing Up Carter. In foreign affairs, the new Premier confronts both a Moscow that is still seething because Tokyo allowed the U.S. to dismantle and examine the MiG-25 that a defecting Soviet airman flew to Japan in September, and a Peking miffed because negotiations for a Japanese-Chinese peace treaty have bogged down. It is unlikely, however, that Fukuda will take any new foreign policy initiatives until he has had the chance to size up the diplomacy of Jimmy Carter's Administration...
...hinder the icy logic of their untanglings. Born Agatha Mary Clarissa Miller in Torquay, she was the daughter of a rich American and an English mother. Although gifted with a good singing voice, she abandoned a stage career because of her shyness. In 1914 she married a British airman, Colonel Archibald Christie, and plunged into the war effort. Between volunteer nursing and practicing pharmacy, she wrote her first detective story on a dare from her sister. The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the 5-ft. 4-in. dandy and retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot. His egoism, eccentricities...
...each mission, and money was not the question. His friends and former colleagues believe him. A handsome, mustachioed graduate of Columbia University who speaks six languages, he is described by a U.S. Army official as "one of those kinds of guys"-a Terry-and-the-Pirates type of airman with a taste for danger. Flying assault and rescue missions in Viet Nam in 1969 and 1970 as a captain, he won two Purple Hearts, three Air Medals, the Bronze Star and the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...minutes past midnight on a rainy Wednesday morning in the Mozambican capital of Lourenço Marques, the Portuguese flag was lowered by an unsmiling Portuguese sailor, folded by a Portuguese airman and entrusted to a Portuguese soldier. Then three African soldiers in starched fatigues ran up the new flag of the People's Republic of Mozambique. As tribal dancers beat animal-skin drums and a 21-gun salute boomed outside Machava Stadium, the militantly Maoist President of the new state, Samora Moises Machel, 41, embraced Portuguese Prime Minister Vasco Gonçalves. Thus ended 477 years of Lisbon...
With a chestful of ribbons (Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Commendation Medal from three tours in Viet Nam) and Airman's Performance Reports studded with ratings of "absolutely superior," Leonard Matlovich, 31, is the very model of a modern technical sergeant. He is also a professed practicing homosexual. As such, he has become a celebrity in the armed forces, which every year drums out hundreds of homosexuals on grounds that they "seriously impair discipline, good order, morale and security." Tall and redhaired, Matlovich has become, in the words of American Civil Liberties Union Lawyer David Addlestone, "a beautiful case...