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...signing of the peace treaty with Israel. The only country in the Arabian peninsula to remain solidly behind Sadat is Oman. Says Foreign Minister Qais Zawawi: "We do so out of the conviction that this treaty is the first step toward solving the problem of the Middle East and achieving a Palestinian solution. Even more, it is a realistic step toward improving our common regional security." But the trouble is, as a senior Western diplomat observes, "it would be a lot more meaningful and comfortable for Sadat if Oman were not sitting on a time bomb...
...coincidentally, East Germany's Defense Minister Heinz Hoffmann was visiting Zambia and Mozambique last week, promising to arm the Patriotic Front "to the teeth." The guerrillas can also ask for increased aid from the Cubans, who already have plenty of military advisers on duty in Angola and Ethiopia. And last week Libya's strongman...
...ripples from Three Mile Island are reaching Europe's shores, giving much new force to the antinuclear movement. The West German government two weeks ago had to scuttle plans to build a nuclear reprocessing and waste-storage facility at Gorleben, near the East German border, after a Harrisburg-inspired protest by environmentalists and "citizen initiative" groups. Said Count Otto Lambsdorff, West Germany's Economics Minister: "This could be the death knell for our whole nuclear policy, including the export of nuclear plants...
Baker and his wife Mimi rent three floors of a four-story brownstone ("a dilapidation," they call it) on Manhattan's East Side. But the Bakers' beloved sheltering place is a gray shingle and white clapboard summer house on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island. It was built by a whaling captain in 1835, at the height of the island's seafaring prosperity. Its present owners seem comfortable there, and with each other. Tall, handsome and merry of heart, Mimi is a good conversational match for Baker, and people who know the pair well tend to say "they" when talking of them, rather...
...being universally understood that nobody in his right mind would want to be present at one ... A likelier explanation may be the tyranny of fashion. This theory gains support from the latest development on the party front, which is the replacement of weak wine with water. All over the East Coast this summer, and perhaps even in less benighted regions for all I know, ostensibly sane people are turning up at parties and ordering water. What is even more curious, they ask for imported water. American water isn't good enough for them...