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Foreign Affairs, Lurie's seventh book of fiction, explores the vocabularies of love and friendship. It is a tale of two citizens (U.S.) played out in an alien though strangely familiar land (U.K.). Virginia Miner, "54 years old, small, plain, and unmarried - the sort of person that no one ever notices," has returned to London to research children's rhymes. Fred Turner, 28 and gorgeous, is in town to polish off a book on 18th century Poet-Playwright John...
...diplomatic tour. U.S. officials readily admitted that Murphy had no specific plan when he began his hopscotch around the Arab capitals. But Murphy was a good choice to send on a side trip to Damascus: as U.S. Ambassador to Syria from 1974 to 1978, he developed a personal friendship with Assad. The two men talked for more than two hours before Murphy flew to Jerusalem, where he conferred with Peres for an hour. After seeing Mubarak in Cairo and lunching with Hussein in Amman, Murphy returned to Damascus on Friday. He met with Syrian Vice President Abdel Halim Khaddam, Assad...
...comes at an awkward time for South Korea. As the trucks were unloading, facilities for the 1988 Summer Olympics were being dedicated at a ceremony in Seoul. The North Koreans described their shipment as part of Leader Kim II Sung's new policy of promoting friendship, but a Japanese newspaper reported that North Korea had moved three new armored corps into position along the Demilitarized Zone. Said South Korean President Chun Doo Hwan: "North Korea's falsified peace offensives are always accompanied by sinister moves against the South...
...grand theme, his book feels slight. He has turned to book-length fiction comparatively late in life; evidently it is not his natural form. Even so, Arlen has sound instincts about human nature: Tom is wholly believable in his fumbling attempts to launch a just-us-guys friendship with his father's latest collaborator; Sam's mistress Maria performs a convincing balancing act between servility and possession. Arlen's prose, if too painstakingly crafted, is at once taut and richly evocative. And in its glimpses of combat between father and son, it is fittingly remorseless. -By William...
...eight-year desert war with the Marxist Polisario guerrillas by enclosing almost half of the 103,000-sq.-mi. Western Sahara with a 750-mile-long wall of sand and rock. Just last month he caught Western leaders off balance yet again by signing a treaty of friendship with Libya's notorious Muammar Gaddafi. Says a West European diplomat: "No matter what Hassan does, it seems to turn out all right...