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...Friday morning, Carter met with Vice President Walter Mondale, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in the Oval Office for an hour and 25 minutes. They confronted three options: go ahead with the trip, 'cancel it, or postpone it until late December or early January, before Congress reconvenes. They settled on the third option, recognizing that because of the difficulty in lining up so many heads of state, Carter might have to visit the nine nations in two separate journeys...
...even sent its own security guards to 13 foreign airports that it regards as sloppily run -starting with Palma, Majorca, where the four hijackers had boarded the Lufthansa flight two weeks earlier. Bonn told Madrid flatly that unless the Germans were allowed to handle their own security, they would cancel all flights between Majorca and West Germany. Anxious to avoid such a blow to its tourist industry, the Spanish government reluctantly agreed...
...like a slow-motion plan against us. Step by step. Already, our names could not appear in newspapers. My recordings were not played on the state radio." When he performed with Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, only Richter's name appeared in the next day's reviews. Rostropovich concerts were canceled everywhere. "I request engagements in other countries," says Slava, "and Ministry send telegrams saying, 'Rostropovich ill.' They cancel my television appearances. Why? They say, 'Oh, Rostropovich is not very talented. He is bad cellist.' Suddenly, I do not exist?like a miracle! Now in Belgrade people talking about human rights...
...election. In the morning we also hand out flyers with the latest news on them, then we follow our assigned crew to the fields. Normally we only have access an hour before work, during lunch hour, and an hour after work (although the growers always scramble or cancel lunch hour). At Sam Andrews we had access all day to the workers because of labor law violations in an attempted election the year before...
...competitive, in fact, that the syndicate industry is one of few in America that have not been able to form a trade association. It is also a business so fluid and freewheeling that the typical feature contract between newspaper and syndicate allows either side to cancel without cause upon giving only 30 days' notice. Thus was the New York News last May able to grab Peanuts away from the New York Post, where it had appeared for a decade. Syndicates raid each other's rosters as well. In one of the most spectacular snatches in syndicate annals...