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...chortle about the peanut soup and catfish paté. Diana could spin one delicious backbite like that into a column. Now, she says, the absolute, ultimate social event in Western civilization is the small dinner given by Ronnie and Nancy in the private quarters. The one coming up for Britain's Charles and his Diana will, in McLellan's view, elevate the 80 participants to social sainthood...
...conference took a highly convoluted form. In his U.N. speech, the Prime Minister said that "if deemed necessary," peace talks "may be initiated with the support of an international forum, as agreed upon by the negotiating states." He suggested that permanent members of the U.N. Security Council (the U.S., Britain, France, China and the Soviet Union) might be involved, an idea that seemed to give the Soviets entrée to the peace talks. But Peres quickly added that countries "who confine their diplomatic relations to one side of the conflict [should] exclude themselves." That effectively fenced off Peking and Moscow...
...topping the charts before most of them were born. No matter. The audience at London's Limehouse Studios was dancing in the aisles last week as Singer Carl Perkins taped a rockabilly revival for Britain's Channel 4, to be broadcast on New Year's Day. For the 30th-anniversary celebration of his platinum platter Blue Suede Shoes, Perkins played a set of vintage rock 'n' roll with a little help from such admirers as Eric Clapton, Dave Edmunds, Ringo Starr and George Harrison. Rock groupies were impressed by an even unlikelier occurrence: Harrison, who lost his wife Patti Boyd...
...ballistic missiles. The U.S. could keep about 120 cruise missiles. Soviets would cut their forces to equal U.S. deployments plus those of Britain and France...
...depression is the constant enemy of any defector, and Soviets seem especially prone to what intelligence experts call "the postpartum blues." Yurchenko's case reminded many diplomats of Soviet Journalist Oleg Bitov, who returned to Moscow last year after defecting to Great Britain in 1983. Though Bitov offered a kidnap tale similar to Yurchenko's, British officials are convinced that both men simply had a change of heart. "A feeling arises that . . . 'Mother Russia beckons,' that the West, nice as it has been, is not 'me,' " explains a British intelligence officer...