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...schools of small boats gave way to the majestic masters of the daylight hours, the 22 tall ships from 18 countries. The stately succession of tall ships was a graceful ambassador from a vanished, less hectic age. As a cool breeze billowed sails and spirits and Navy guns fired in salute, some spectators reacted with the quiet awe that is more commonly found in gazing at great cathedrals. "I feel like I'm watching history," said Julie Cook of Brookville, Pa. She was indeed...
...million a year in lost sales. The U.S. responded with a threat to retaliate by July 1 against a host of European consumer items, including Perrier water, Brie cheese and Heineken beer. The E.C. came back with talk of restrictions on more products. Said Sir Roy Denman, the E.C. ambassador to the U.S.: "This is the nearest approach to trade war across the Atlantic I've seen in 35 years...
Meanwhile, in Washington, Israeli officials were trying to limit another investigation. A delegation that included Meir Rosenne, the Israeli Ambassador to the U.S., met with Justice Department officials in an effort to head off the indictment of Aviam Sella, an Israeli air-force colonel. He has been implicated in the case of Jonathan Pollard, an American naval analyst who has pleaded guilty to turning over suitcases full of U.S. intelligence secrets to Israel...
...days after East's funeral, Republican Governor James G. Martin appointed Congressman James Broyhill to serve the last six months of the term. Broyhill, a 23-year House veteran, had just won a bitter primary campaign for the Senate nomination against former U.S. Ambassador to Rumania David Funderburk, a candidate of the ultra-right-wing National Congressional Club, which had previously backed East. North Carolina Republicans hope that Broyhill's incumbency, however brief, will boost him in his uphill campaign against the Democratic nominee, popular former Governor Terry Sanford, who retired in 1985 after 15 years as president of Duke...
...fair-mindedness, says a high-ranking Egyptian official, risks "the destruction of goodwill accumulated over many years." Secondly, though they understand the U.S. reaction to terrorism, the Arabs are shocked that the U.S. appears to blame the outbreak on the entire Arab world. Says Ashraf Ghorbal, a former Egyptian Ambassador to Washington: "Terrorism has become the lens through which the Americans look at the Middle East." The Saudis were particularly offended by the intensity of the arms-sale debate in the Senate, and at one point asked the Administration to forget the whole thing...