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...shooting down of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, the Governors of New York and New Jersey ordered the Port Authority to deny landing rights to Gromyko's jetliner at any of its airport facilities, including J.F.K. The Foreign Minister was sufficiently incensed by their action to cancel abruptly and angrily his appearance at the U.N. Not even an offer by Washington to allow his craft to put down at a U.S. military airfield could persuade Gromyko to overlook what he clearly regarded as an officially tolerated affront to Soviet dignity. In subsequent months, he demonstrated, by words and attitude...
...first character. He leaves his Caracas hotel one morning to visit the old man in his village in the Orinoco delta. They have a pleasant lunch, but when Naipaul returns to Caracas he finds a telegram from Bogart, a note he had missed that morning, which asks him to cancel his visit. Maybe it should have been a signal to Naipaul that the thousands of air-miles and the hundreds of pages which have come between him and the room at the BBC form an unbridgeable...
...Pontiac, Mich. The signs read: U.A.W. ON STRIKE FOR JOB SECURITY and ONE DAY HEADLINES, THE NEXT DAY BREADLINES. At a Chevrolet plant in Van Nuys, Calif., most of the 4,045 U.A.W. members walked off the job, and the facility shut down. The company was forced to cancel two Saturday shifts at its Buick assembly plant in Flint, Mich...
...that opens in September will provide the venue for Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to talk with Shultz-and possibly with Reagan. In the aftermath of the KAL 007 crisis, Gromyko was refused entry last year to international airports in New York and New Jersey, and he decided to cancel his annual U.N. appearance. The veteran diplomat has been included on this session's roster of speakers, but there is no official word from Moscow about his plans...
...fight." Nor can Thatcher's troubles be dismissed as old-fashioned class warfare. Many of her own Tory backbenchers remain restive over the government's performance. And earlier this month, in a rare act of defiance, the House of Lords threw out Thatcher's plan to cancel elections in the country's Labor Party-dominated metropolitan area councils, which she is intent on abolishing...