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...subjects, the revitalization of urban areas. After the round-table discussion, the Prince strolled over to the Octagon House, built in 1801, to peruse the two-page Treaty of Ghent ("Quite a long one, too," he said smilingly), which ended the War of 1812 between Great Britain...
England and America, George Bernard Shaw once wryly observed, are two lands divided by a common language. But if that dyspeptic Irishman had been around to witness the visit of the Prince and Princess of Wales to Washington last week, he might have noted that the U.S. and Britain are two countries united by an uncommon love of royalty...
Charles and Diana, the First Couple of British public relations, are not in Washington on a state visit. They are patrons of the National Gallery of Art's sumptuous show, "The Treasure Houses of Britain" (to which Charles has lent the painting The Shooting Party, by John Wootton). They are also paying a call to a suburban JCPenney to give the royal seal of approval to the store's "Best of Britain" merchandising campaign...
Afterward, the couple was to take a tour of "The Treasure Houses of Britain," guided by the gallery's ubiquitous director J. Carter Brown (the only man to be invited to all the black-tie occasions) and Gervase Jackson-Stops, the show's curator. Like dutiful dons, the two men planned to give special emphasis to objects and pictures relating to the Tudor dynasty...
Thatcher had sent a private telex to the White House last August invoking Britain's "special relationship" with the U.S. and reminding the President that Britain supported the American defense buildup "in every way." Some observers took this to refer to Britain's endorsement of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which France has refused to back. But the French obviously believe in dollar wars: the Thomson and GTE bid was a whopping $3.1 billion less than Plessey-Rockwell's. SPYING Painful Stalemate...