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...world's troublesome flash points, the eastern Mediterranean, involves not just two adversaries but four -Greece against Turkey, and the U.S. Congress against the White House. An increasing hazard of this four-way face-off: an open, ugly military confrontation between Greece and Turkey, possibly as early as this summer...
...will also be limited to their foreign and finance ministers. Other aides, including National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, will wait in an adjoining room. When the particular expertise of one of them is needed, the head of state will push a button by his chair. A red light will flash in the subordinates' area on a board numbered 1 through 8, indicating which leader needs assistance...
...Flash polls last week indicated that Peres' selection had improved Labor's previously sagging election chances; expectations were that the party might take 43 of the 120 Knesset seats, instead of 39. But the Defense Minister still has two large obstacles to face. One is Rabin's continuing presence on the Labor slate as a candidate for a Knesset seat. Voters will be reminded that the party has not totally repudiated a man whose administration was plagued with scandal and who seemed incapable of handling Israel's endemic inflation. Peres' other problem is the strength...
...Flash is what affluent rockers want, insists Decorator Phyllis Morris. Rock stars love trendy Phyllis because her furnishings-zebra rugs, Borsalino mirrors, St. Regis candelabra and Corsican coffee tables-are loud, lacquered and overpriced. "Rock people are just like the movie stars of the '40s," says la dame du flash. "It's exciting to watch them spend money. They're looking for something that says they've arrived. They're creative, emotional, uninhibited. And in their homes you'll find an atmosphere of uncontrolled funk...
British Bluesman John Mayall, 43, has a different idea of flash. The floor of his pool has a huge erotic painting. He has one of L.A.'s most extensive collections of pornography. Perched atop a ridge, Mayall's $230,000 house has a Tudor-style living room festooned with saddles and snakeskins. But Hogarth prints lead up winding stairs to a large alphabetized porn library...