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...officials the night before. She said she made "extensive efforts" to reach the NRC "but there was no one there, there was no emergency number and no 24-hour manning" like there used to be. An indignant Ray said she considered the situation "incomprehensible" and with a less-than-discreet reference to Three Mile Island, reminded the NRC that "emergencies do occur...
...Caribbean and elsewhere, claimed Castro last week, "we are being very discreet and trying hard not to embarrass Carter." He made the statement the night before he left New York, at an informal dinner for heads of U.S. news organizations, including Time Inc. Castro claimed that he once talked Panama's Omar Torrijos out of seizing the Canal when negotiations with the U.S. were stalled; that he is eager to begin pulling his troops out of Africa as soon as the situation in Namibia and Zimbabwe-Rhodesia is settled; and that Zbigniew Brzezinski is personally to blame...
...hasn't found his Theme. Letters is his middle-age-crisis objectified into a monstrosity. No one can fault Barth for wasting a decade of his life on it, if he just had to get it off his chest. But it's the kind of book a more discreet author would bury in his basement, for posthumous publication alone.JOHN BARTH...
...Ronald P. Kriss, a senior editor of Time magazine, says, "This quiet generation business is a canard--we were not as quiet as were sometimes made out to be, just more discreet about our likes and dislikes...
Vatican City. A discreet, progressive administrator, Villot often appeared overshadowed by other papal aides, yet he was appointed Camerlengo (Chamberlain) by Paul VI, charged with organizing the Pontiffs funeral and the election of his successor. Mentioned as a papabile himself, Villot was reappointed secretary of state by both John Paul I and John Paul...