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This week's meeting probably would not have been scheduled at all had Cyrus Vance not resigned as Secretary of State. So long as he was to represent the U.S. at the Austrian festivities, the White House was unsure about whether he should see Gromyko. Vance felt he should, but presidential advisers argued that the Soviets, not the Americans, ought to make the initial gesture to resume high-level contacts. It was Moscow's aggression in Afghanistan, after all, that had ruptured U.S.-Soviet ties in the first place...
...Palm Beach, then invited her to the Bahamas. The fetching honey blond, formerly married to Shipping Magnate Robert Wagner, says she is only a Kennedy family friend. As for the Prince of Wales, they met après ski in Gstaad. "I don't discuss royalty," says Austrian-born Helga, who also will not get precise about her "early 30s" vintage: "You know you don't ask a European woman...
...woolen mask over her face. She was accompanied by Mexican Ambassador Ricardo Galan, representing the prisoners. All three men, with Latin chivalry, gallantly stood aside to allow the hooded woman to enter first. After two hours and 20 minutes of secret talks, there were signs of some progress. Austrian Ambassador Edgar Selzer was released and flew off to Vienna to be at the bedside of his dying wife...
...toughest woman athlete I have ever met." She is a calm, concentrated woman with fiercely appraising ice-blue eyes who carries a solidly efficient 147 lbs. on a 5-ft. 7-in. frame. At the downtown Lake Placid house rented for the women's team by the Austrian Ski Federation, all talk about gold medals was banned. Moser-Pröll spent the evening before the women's downhill crocheting a red tablecloth-possibly something for the Café Annemarie that she runs with her husband Herbert in the off-season at Kleinarl...
DIED. Oskar Kokoschka, 93, Austrian-born expressionist; in Villeneuve, Switzerland. In his 20s the fiery, eccentric Kokoschka painted some of the great portraits of the century, which explored the recesses of the psyche, even as his compatriot Freud was probing it. With Kirchner, Nolde and Max Beckmann, among others, he was a founder of the style of radical figurative art known as German expressionism. After World War I he turned to bright cityscapes, and during his last years in Switzerland, to Alpine landscapes...