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South Africa's response to Mudge's departure was a bland assurance that direct rule from Pretoria would be imposed only temporarily. But no mention was made of new elections to fill the vacant seats in the assembly at Windhoek, Namibia's capital. That omission was greeted cynically by Western diplomats. Said a European representative at the U.N.: "The game Pretoria is playing is obvious. It wants to procrastinate as much as possible...
Executives of the two papers display little of the courteous approval that journalists typically accord competitors. News Editor William Giles, 55, calls the featurish Free Press "superficial, flighty and frilly." Lawrence says that Giles' paper, which earnestly stresses hard news, is "dull, bland and less complete than the Free Press." Giles and Lawrence live just a block away from each other in suburban Grosse Pointe Park, but as Lawrence dryly observes, "We have certainly not had the opportunity to become close friends...
...then bundled into an unmarked car by unidentified men and driven aimlessly around Gdansk for eight hours. The reason for the incident, which Walesa later described as a "kidnaping," seemed to be to avoid any possible disturbances as a result of Walesa's scheduled speech, even though the bland text, released in advance to foreign correspondents, did little more than counsel Polish workers to "go home in peace...
...other Democrats want in. Said Bill White, an aide to Ohio Senator John Glenn: "Half the Senate woke up this morning and saw the President in the mirror." Glenn's chances have obviously improved, though many political strategists say that the former space hero must somehow shed his bland image. Potential candidates Arizona Representative Morris Udall, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers and New York Senator Pat Moynihan have put out feelers. Colorado Senator Gary Hart's campaign was already under way. California Senator Alan Cranston portrayed himself as the logical liberal successor to Kennedy...
...center, pleaded guilty to charges of spying for the Soviet Union. It was enough to give the already rattled British a bad case of jitters. Said a group of Conservative Members of Parliament who called for a judicial investigation of the "parlous" state of British security: "The time for bland assurances is long past...