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...want to spend their "last night of love" with and 4) pick as a husband given the chance to start life over, the women of France each time voted Fabius into their fantasy bedrooms ahead of such Gallic gallants as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Alain Delon and G??rard Depardieu. How can this be? Those polled did not say more, and Madame Fabius said nothing. As for the fabulous Fabius, he was, said a spokesman, "amused...
...difficult week for UNESCO. First, G??rard Bolla, one of the United Nations agency's two deputy directors general, resigned. Officials maintained that Bolla, a Swiss civil servant, was leaving because his nine-month temporary contract had run out. But others in the organization said that Bolla was dissatisfied both by UNESCO's refusal to extend his contract by more than two months and by proposed reforms...
...student. After the 1980 election, Stockman was so little known in the Reagan camp that he was not invited to the President-elect's major planning sessions in Los Angeles. But Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, then a mentor of Stockman's, brought along a memo his protég?? had written called "Avoiding a G.O.P. Economic Dunkirk" and recommended him as Budget Director...
That strength will be the first to desert him as he grows up. It is in fact already a potential weakness. "A dickschädel, " his coach G??nther Bosch calls him, meaning he is, not to put too fine a point on it, pigheaded. That imparts to his game its never-say-die spirit, but may also interfere with improving it physically and tactically. Ion Tiriac, his other mentor, insists Becker is too slow afoot but has trouble imposing on him a corrective training regimen. "He's very stubborn. You have to convince him of everything." In fact, it took...
Appropriately, South Africa's best-known churchman today is a Huddleston protég??, Desmond Tutu. Impressed by Huddleston's work on behalf of the country's oppressed, Tutu abandoned a career as a schoolteacher to enter the Anglican church in 1958 and study for the priesthood. He worked in parishes in Britain and in 1978 was appointed a bishop in Lesotho. That same year he was named general secretary of the 13 million-member South African Council of Churches (SACC). In 1984 he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his antiapartheid efforts, and this year he became the first...