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...week had begun promisingly. Intermediate talks between representatives of Lisbon and liberation leaders from Portuguese Guinea had ended on a cordial note in London. During initial peace contacts in Lusaka, the capital of Zambia, Foreign Minister Mario Scares (see box) had emotionally embraced Samora Machel, president of Frelimo, the Mozambique Liberation Front. Meanwhile, Tanzania, Zaire and several other African states that have long aided anti-Portuguese guerrillas were quietly helping Lisbon toward a solution...
...Elysée. It will contrast sharply with the Olympian manner patented by De Gaulle and copied, with minor modifications, by Georges Pompidou right up through the fatal end of his never-acknowledged struggle with cancer eight weeks ago. On election night, Giscard not only pointedly offered "a very cordial salute" to Mitterrand but did so in English as well as French-a cultural heresy that raised eyebrows even on the political left. Said former Premier Pierre Mendes-France, a Mitterrand supporter: "Yes, I can see it now. France will become the 51st state before Puerto Rico...
Changing Lives. Key 73's most significant accomplishment, apart from the distribution of 50 million Bibles or scriptural excerpts, was its promotion of new kinds of interdenominational evangelism. There were many cordial meetings among such various participants as Southern Baptists, Roman Catholics and Salvation Army members and among WASPS, blacks and Puerto Ricans. Evangelicals were pleased that some Protestant liberals were again emphasizing "the need for changing individual lives...
...Arabia for his second meeting in five weeks with King Feisal on the question of Arab oil for the U.S. From there his blue and white jet flew on to Damascus for the first visit in two decades of a U.S. Secretary of State to Syria. Kissinger had a cordial meeting with President Hafez Assad, but their conversations ended in a diplomatic impasse. Assad refused to join Jordan and Egypt in a united front of Arab combatants at the talks until Israel promised to return occupied land...
...middle class. The movie is predictable but energetic. The jokes are television sitcom, but they are about topics-Africa, black militancy-that up to now have been virtually smothered in sanctimony and good will. It is refreshing to have them treated, as they are here, with a little cordial disrespect. Director Oscar Williams emphasizes the broadness and artificiality of the material and encourages his actors to play big. Clarice Taylor, as a humiliated housewife, and Leonard Jackson, as her aggressively bourgeois husband, respond with enthusiasm...