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Discredited Leader. To forestall any such confrontation, U.S. Special Envoy L. Dean Brown (TIME, April 12) continued his talks with leaders of the Christian and Moslem factions. France also dispatched retired Diplomat Georges Gorse to see what influence Paris could exert...
...Peacock Spring, Rumer again evidences the profound understanding of children that she showed in The River and An Episode of Sparrows. Two adolescent English girls, Una and Halcy on, are called out to Delhi by their envoy father - only to discover that they are chaperones to his Eurasian fiancee. At first the book evokes the formal, secluded India of the diplomats: banks of flow ers, servants, gardeners, even a boy to beat dew from the lawn. It is a world of riding, parties and ease. Then Una and Ravi, a young Indian poet, fall in love - and the India...
Brown, who retired last year from the Foreign Service to become director of Washington's privately run Middle East Institute, was ambassador to Amman in 1970 when Palestinian fedayeen went to war with the army of King Hussein. As the newly arrived envoy in Amman, he strapped a pearl-handled pistol to his waist, rode to the palace in an armored personnel carrier and presented his credentials to the King. Brown flew into Beirut last week unarmed and with instructions from Secretary of State Kissinger to make contact with Jumblatt and Franjieh and offer the good offices...
Through Lord Greenhill, its special envoy to Rhodesia, London has told Smith that if he would accept early black majority rule, Britain would 1) provide troops to protect whites and blacks alike during the transition period, and 2) underwrite the main financial cost of resettling Rhodesian Europeans in Britain and other Western countries. Although Smith now concedes that majority rule will have to come considerably sooner than he once envisaged ("not in my lifetime"), he still insists that an African majority government is 10 to 15 years off. That stubbornness prompted British Foreign Secretary James Callaghan to declare in exasperation...
...discus thrower: "The wall was too narrow to go for distance, and the wind currents were bad." Trudeau also wrote and illustrated a 3,000-word report on the trip for 75 client papers, and did prliminary sketches for Uncle Duke's arrival last month as Chinese envoy. This week, Trudeau will attend a Women's Political Caucus seminar for prospective candidates in preparation for Ginny congressional race...