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...Andropov's meetings with Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Pakistani President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq and Afghan President Babrak Karmal produce any movement toward a settlement in Afghanistan...
...interpreter. The tall, stooped Soviet leader looked more than ever like a Russian zhuravl, or crane, as he bent forward to speak to the diminutive Chinese envoy. By contrast, Andropov's other greetings seemed lukewarm, even toward such friends of the Soviet Union as Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Syrian President Hafez Assad...
...Four other films are touted as hot Oscar contenders: The Verdict, in which Paul Newman plays a burnt-out Boston lawyer; Frances, a Hollywood horror story starring Jessica Lange; Sophie's Choice, with Meryl Streep as William Styron's tragic heroine; and Richard Attenborough's epic Gandhi. These four films will be released for selective engagements in a few cities in the hope of garnering media attention and year-end critics' awards. But there will be less time and space available for serious pictures in competition with the inevitable Christmas hits. In shooting for the moon...
DIED. Vinoba Bhave, 87, saintly ascetic who inherited Mahatma Gandhi's role as India's spiritual conscience; after observing the tradition of embracing death with a weeklong fast, following a heart attack; in Paunar, Maharashtra, India. Slight but vigorous ("a Hercules," said Gandhi), Bhave was a loinclothed apostle of social reform who owned no possessions and tramped 45,000 miles barefoot around India, preaching nonviolence and soliciting contributions of land for the poor...
While many world leaders, including French Premier Pierre Mauroy and Indian Prime Minister Gandhi, announced that they planned to attend Brezhnev's funeral, Reagan rejected the arguments made by Secretary of State George Shultz, National Security Adviser Clark and CIA Director William Casey that the President's presence would be a gesture of conciliation toward the new Soviet leadership. Instead, Reagan decided to send a delegation headed by Shultz and Vice President George Bush, who interrupted a seven-nation visit to Africa. The decision drew immediate criticism. Reagan's failure to go to Moscow, said Massachusetts Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas...