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Another vigorous advocate of reform has been Robert White, 53, the U.S. envoy in El Salvador. In a daring speech to the local Chamber of Commerce, White accused wealthy Salvadorans of resisting reforms and condoning repression. When barricaded in his residence by a rightist mob, he calmly sat out the siege, listening to classical music. Later, he escaped under a diversionary volley of tear gas fired by his Marine bodyguards. Says one official familiar with White's tactics: "When you are trying to promote economic growth, you write reports. When you're trying to stop torture, you have...
...Russian ambassador to America decides that the capitalists "must be stopped--at any cost." The Russians plan to resink the Titanic. Once it is raised, the clever foreigners phone in a false distress call, deluding the good-hearted American destroyer guarding the resurrected liner into leaving. Then, a Russian envoy boards with the news that the Russian "research vessel" is actually a warship (will they stop at nothing?) and adds that the Titanic will be torpedoed "in exactly eight minutes." The Americans, surely, are up an ocean. But no--resourcefully, they have ordered a nuclear submarine to stand...
...where he made a fortune now estimated at more than $1.8 million in the oil business, have left no trace of the Sunbelt in his voice or manners. As a Congressman (1967-70) who later served brief terms as Ambassador to the U.N., chairman of the Republican National Committee, envoy to China and director of the CIA, he also is a member of the Washington Establishment to which Reagan is a complete outsider...
DIED. Sergio Cardinal Pignedoli, 70, one of the Roman Catholic Church's leading diplomats, who visited 105 countries as a Vatican envoy and was a strong candidate for the papacy after the deaths in 1978 of Pope Paul VI and his short-lived successor, John Paul I; of a blood clot of the lungs; during a visit to his home town of Reggio Emilia. Pignedoli served as a navy chaplain in World War II; he was elevated to Cardinal in 1973. As head of the Secretariat for Non-Christians, he "blotted his copybook" during an attempt at Christian-Islamic...
Even though he had been the one to break off the negotiations last month, Sadat was anxious that talks resume among the three negotiators: Egyptian Foreign Minister Kamal Hassan Ali, Israeli Interior Minister Yosef Burg, and U.S. Special Envoy Sol Linowitz. Sadat still had plenty of misgivings about the Israelis, and he demanded last week that they stop setting "preconditions or faits accomplis." Translation: he remained upset about Israeli demands that the future of Jerusalem should not be discussed, and angry that the Israelis were forging ahead with plans for more Jewish settlements in the Israeli-occupied West Bank...