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Broyhill's opponent is Right-Winger David Funderburk, 42, a former Reagan Administration Ambassador to Rumania who resigned last year, charging that the State Department was too soft on the Communist country. Funderburk's campaign is being run by the state's National Congressional Club, which previously engineered the elections of Conservative Avatar Jesse Helms and his colleague John East, who is leaving the Senate after just one term because of a thyroid disorder. The N.C.C. has launched the same no-holds-barred polemical attack on Broyhill that it previously employed against Democrats...
...they had seven days to leave the country. Britain deported 22 Libyan students suspected of activism and informed more than 300 others that they would have to leave shortly. Spain demanded that eleven Libyans quit the country. The Italians arrested a former Libyan diplomat for plotting to kill U.S. Ambassador to Rome Maxwell Rabb and announced a 20% cut in Libya's diplomatic corps. And the French expelled four Libyans, while empowering gendarmes to conduct spot searches of suspicious-looking young Arabs...
...remembrance. It began two weeks ago, as the pianist and his wife Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, 78, stepped off Japan Air Lines Flight 440 from Paris. Before leaving New York City, the pianist had been sanguine about his chances of success, both as a musician and as a cultural ambassador. "I am not a Communist, but I can understand their way of thinking better than most Americans," he declared. "We all know there is good and evil everywhere. I was brought up to seek the good. In the Soviet Union today, the good is the music they produce. I hope that...
...powerful first secretary of the Soviet composers' union, who nevertheless went to the concert. In response to the American attack on Libya, the Soviets boycotted a dinner in Horowitz's honor at the Italian embassy, but a postconcert party at Spaso House, the ornate Moscow residence of American Ambassador Arthur Hartman, was well attended...
...will be an ambassador between you and Gorbachev, Mr. President," says Horowitz. Taking Wanda's arm, he introduces her. "And this is my wife. Did you know that she is the daughter of Toscanini?" As Reagan takes Wanda's hand, photographers snap the scene furiously...