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...There is nothing comparable to it in diplomatic history," said Venezuelan Delegate Andrés Aguilar, who recalled that delegates originally expected it would be a labor of a few months. But the complexities, and the delegations, grew. By last week there was a cast of thousands: 460 registered delegates from 156 participating countries and 24 nongovernmental organizations-the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth, for example-and back-up staff of 2,000. The result, said Canada's J. Alan Beesley, chairman of the drafting committee, is "the most significant achievement in international relations since...
...catch-can across the country by its makers, and it deserves to be caught. It reminds one not so much of other movies about moviemaking as it does of those blends of action and philosophy that the French intellectual adventurers used to put out. It may not be André Malraux, but it certainly is on the level of Remain Gary - and all the more remarkable and amusing for bearing a MADE IN U.S.A. stamp. - By Richard Schickel
MARRIED. Raquel Welch, 39, sometimes reluctant cinematic sex symbol; and André Weinfeld, 33, French film writer and director, whom she met two years ago on location in France; she for the third time, he for the first; at Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, the southernmost tip of the Baja California peninsula...
...huge undertaking, but last week New York's Metropolitan Museum proved it was equal to the task. It triumphantly opened a set of new galleries that allow the museum to display the full riches of its 19th century collection. Built with a $2.5 million gift from the late André Meyer, an investment banker and longtime trustee, the galleries supply more than half an acre of floor space, topped by a vast glass-gridded ceiling that extends, free of supports, over the whole area. The galleries are part of the new southern wing, designed by Kevin Roche/John Dinkeloo...
...Chairman Andrés Aguilar Mawdsley, 55, chief counsel for Venezuela's state oil company, is a bon vivant who loves Caribbean music but is also an eloquent spokesman for democracy. Son of a professional diplomat, Aguilar earned a law degree from McGill University in Canada and a doctorate in political science from Venezuela's Central University, where he taught civil law and was law school dean in the 1950s. He suffered a painful lesson in political repression in 1956 when he was imprisoned for opposing General Marcos Péréz Jiménez. After...