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Gaddafi's most predictable trait is bis unpredictability. "It's almost impossible to evaluate the man in rational terms," says a British diplomat. "With the coming of dawn, he may take off on a completely new tack." He is a man of mercury, quick to anger. Once when his second in command, Abdul Salam Jalloud, made a mistake, Gaddafi had Jalloud's hair shaved off. He often carries a side arm; more than once, he has lost patience and pulled out his gun, aiming it at the person who offended...
...billion deficit for the month of October alone. But the President predicted that the employment picture would start improving by 1983. He also pledged efforts to bring inflation down to 10%. The success of his seven-year mandate may depend on his ability to meet those targets. Warns a diplomat in Paris: "If a year goes by and the Socialists haven't turned things around, there could be serious trouble...
With surprising ease, the 15-member Security Council recommended the appointment of Javier Pérez de Cuellar, 61, a Peruvian diplomat virtually unknown outside diplomatic circles. The 157-member General Assembly is expected to ratify the choice this week...
...outgoing Secretary-General was in a position to know. Pérez, a diplomat since 1944, served as Peruvian Ambassador to Switzerland and to the Soviet Union before first heading his country's delegation to the U.N. in 1971. Waldheim has entrusted Pérez with a number of delicate missions. In 1975, he became the Secretary-General's special representative in strife-torn Cyprus. Four years later, Waldheim appointed Pérez Under Secretary-General for Special Political Affairs. Most recently, he represented Waldheim in an effort to solve the ticklish issue raised by the Soviet Union...
...Bonn, Kvitsinsky came across as outspoken, unyielding and yet not dogmatic. "He always takes the Soviet line, but he doesn't talk ideology," one fellow diplomat observes. "After a while you even get to like him." That will not make him easy to deal with. Warns a Soviet colleague: "If you compare his age with Nitze's, you will see who has more time to sit and talk in Geneva...