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Unusual Hoorahs. Washington has been warning since the expropriation last October that unless Peru paid compensation, the U.S. Government had no recourse but to enforce the law. As a result some critics read last week's action as a retreat after fruitless bar gaining on the issue and scoffed at the "Chickenlooper" amendment."Maybe there was an element of brinkmanship in this whole situation, and if so, we blinked,"said a U.S. official in a back ground observation that was later contradicted by the State Department. Gen erally, however, the U.S. received the kind of welcome hemispheric hoorah that...
Presidential Emissary. Last month, as the deadline drew near, President Nixon sent to Lima a personal emissary, Wall Street Lawyer John N. Irwin, who previously helped negotiate new Panama Canal treaties. At week's end, after a number of fruitless sessions with the junta, Irwin flew back to the U.S. for consultations before returning to Lima. "I am not optimistic," he said in Washington, "but I refuse to be pessimistic until we have completed our conversations...
...that it won't fit." Other underworld witnesses have been hauled in for questioning as well, including such Parisian types as "Jeannot le Corse," "Bronco," "Swami" and "Francois le Beige," but their testimony has simply confused matters. So far, efforts to coax Nathalie to testify have been largely fruitless, although she did submit to one bout of questioning. Now she pleads that she is too busy in Rome to break away. Delon, more cooperative, has chalked up four appearances so far. Each time he makes a point of declaring his innocence to reporters, accusing "rumormongers and nymphomaniacs" of plotting...
...millions of words at protest meetings and ground out countless appeals for help on an electric typewriter, the one modern appliance in the Sobells' drab Greenwich Village apartment. With friends who stood behind Sobell throughout his imprisonment, she spent roughly $1,000,000 on legal maneuvers, including seven fruitless pleas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Money came from those who believed that Sobell had not received a fair trial. Among the doubters were Nobel Prizewinning chemists Harold C. Urey and Linus Pauling, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Britain's nonagenarian nonbeliever, Bertrand Russell. Sobell...
Star--Despite wonderful music, ranging from Kurt Weill to Cole Porter, an aimless, fruitless movie. The theatrical history, however, is fun, and Julie Andrews and Daniel Massey are likewise as Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward. At the GARY, 131 Stuart...