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...dignitaries on the official schedule. Rosalynn goes well prepared to those lunches a deux on the secluded patio out side his West Wing study. "I've got a whole file of things I take to talk about with him." For example, she told him much about her diplomatic foray through Latin America as the President's representative, which a lot of people thought was not a proper role for a First Lady...
...discreetly retreated into seclusion. Though she remained active in party councils, she had hoped to weather in silence the continuing condemnation of her 19-month emergency rule. But increasing isolation within the Congress Party, and the legal entanglements of her son Sanjay, 31, made that course too risky. Her foray into meditation, in fact, aimed to demonstrate her continuing appeal to India's masses. On that score, it was a striking success...
...bands of young Hawaiian demonstrators have landed on Kahoolawe. Their purpose: by their presence to force the Navy to stop the bombing, at least temporarily. Sometimes the game of hares and hounds turns dangerous: two protesters drowned in rough seas while trying to swim back to Maui after one foray. But the young Polynesian Hawaiians have vowed to continue their protests until the Navy leaves the island in peace. TIME Correspondent James Wilde accompanied the latest expedition and afterward sent this report...
Jimmy Carter's next scheduled foreign policy foray is to New York City, where he plans this week to explain his Administration's diplomatic aims at the U.N. Carter's visit coincides with a U.N. debut of sorts for his close Georgia political comrade Andrew Young, who presides for the first time over the Security Council this month. Biggest item on the agenda: a politically touchy debate over a resolution by black African nations to impose tough economic and arms-supply sanctions on white-ruled South Africa...
...They" were Jimmy Carter and the members of his new Administration, all freshly sworn in and now making their first foray out on the Washington dinner circuit. One by one, the freshmen Congressmen at the Press Club bash rose to offer irreverent toasts to the new boys in the Executive Branch. Cracked Ohio Democrat Mary Rose Oakar: "It is nice to know that you can Dial-A-Prayer and get the President of the United States to answer...