Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SATURDAY. Begin wants to go to Washington to hear Leonard Bernstein conduct the Israel Philharmonic. Carter doesn't want him to go. Begin jocularly tells Brzezinski that Camp David is a "deluxe concentration camp." He recalls he has a friend who tunneled out of a British prison camp after six tries. Says he: "If we don't finish soon, I'll call my friend. He'll start working immediately...
There have been reports that Oswald, when seeking his visa to Cuba, told Cuba's Mexican Consul, Eusebio Azcue, of his plans to kill Kennedy and that the information was relayed to Castro, who did not take it seriously. This was contained in a National Enquirer article by British Journalist Comer Clark. Castro scoffed at the report as fictitious. Azcue recalled Oswald as having been "discourteous" when his visa application was rejected but said that they never talked about Kennedy. Nonetheless, the House committee staff cryptically reported to the Congressmen that "the substance of the Clark article is supported...
...clear, was not about to let SWAPO come to power, even in free elections. That means a long-term military commitment by South Africa in Namibia?and a dilemma for the U.S. and Britain, who will face pressure to punish South Africa's recalcitrance with economic sanctions. British private investment in South Africa totals $10 billion, while trade amounts to $3 billion. The U.S. has more than $2 billion in trade and $1.5 billion in private investment...
Elsewhere at Harvard, the Radcliffe Choral Society. Harvard Glee Club, Collegium Musicum and Graduate Chorale crowd the vocal scene. RCS, a choir of sixty women, is touring the British Isles next June, but before that, it will team up with the Glee Club, Collegium and HRO to perform Verdi's Requiem in April...
...Fellows include Sang Moon Chang, a South Korean diplomat and Chief of Protocol, Raymond M. Dafter, a British journalist, Peter Lynn Sinai, an Indian diplomat, and Kifle Wodajo, who resigned in 1977 as Foreign Minister in the Provisional Military Government of Ethiopia...