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...behest of the Saudis, sent to Tehran a delegation headed by Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam. He reportedly carried a Saudi offer to try to press Iraq to lift its siege of Iranian oil ports if Khomeini would agree to negotiate. The Iranians rejected the idea. As a U.S. diplomat put it: "No one has cracked Khomeini. He hears but he doesn't listen...
Thus most observers regard the dalliance with Isabel as a good move for Alfonsín. "Alfonsín can't lose," explains a senior diplomat in Buenos Aires. "If the unity approach works, he will have six to nine months of discussion rather than combat. If it doesn't work out, he will have an advantage because it could serve to split the opposition even further, and he can blame future failures on the Perónists...
Isabel, who is expected to return to Madrid early in June, also stands to come out ahead. The Senate last week passed a bill restoring her extensive real estate holdings and her good name. Moreover, she has been accorded the active political role she obviously relishes. Says another senior diplomat: "She can now perceive that she has a historical place in the scheme of things, something beyond her wildest dreams. On the substantive side, she may genuinely feel that she can help out as the self-perceived fixer." Observes an Argentine banker: "From her point of view...
...means: a sweeping land-reform program, akin to the one attempted by the U.S. in Viet Nam from 1970 to 1975, that aims at a radical transfer of scarce acreage from El Salvador's former feudal oligarchy to the majority of poor campesinos. The program, says a Western diplomat in San Salvador, is "essentially a socialistic program in a country fighting to defeat Marxist rebels...
...part of London's bohemian Bloomsbury group, Keynes dined with such luminaries as Novelists Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. Those gatherings sharpened his Renaissance restlessness. For most of his life Keynes was simultaneously a don, a diplomat and a highly successful currency speculator. As his stature grew, his sexuality shifted. In 1925 Keynes wed the beautiful Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Their marriage endured for the rest of his life. So full were his days on earth that Keynes was able to recall only one regret shortly before his 1946 death: he was sorry, he said, not to have drunk...