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Other issues also threatened the mood of solidarity. Some British delegates wanted to question the 1,000 Russians attending the festival about Soviet human rights infringements; rather than cause an embarrassing fuss, they refrained. West German delegates split on the issue of how to deal with East Germany's imprisonment of Author Rudolf Behro...
...Celebrity had hit Springsteen with unexpected force. One of his crew members recalls that the afternoon of his first London concert Springsteen found every seat in the house covered with enthusiastic, often evangelic, reviews and "started tearing them all up. He just wasn't ready." Later, he handled the fuss in the same way he deals with all the reflections of his past and refractions of his fantasy: through his music...
According to President Carter, the Soviets are "innate racists" who are doomed to fail in the Third World. What's all the fuss about then...
...Naomi James is concerned, she needs neither the club nor Jones to make her world go round. Said she: "I've never heard of the Circumnavigators Club or of the people who are making all the fuss. It seems to be a lot of men stirring up trouble among themselves...
Neither side wants the fish fuss to go on. Next week, negotiators will sit down again in Ottawa to seek a solution. In any event, while the dispute is causing hardships for some individual fishermen, it affects no more than $20 million worth of fish. Compared with the $50 billion in annual trade between the two countries, that is not much to be carping about...