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...kind of prudent hopefulness, positive but well short of jubilant. The distance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had become vast and worrisome. Even an uncertain plan to re-engage is better than hostile solitude. "The main thing is that the talks are taking place," sums up Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British Foreign Secretary. "But don't let's have any terrifically high expectations of sudden change. It's going to be a very long business. It will require a lot of patience from...
...alone after all. Britain gave notice last week that it will leave the Paris-based organization at the end of 1985 if certain management and budgetary reforms are not under taken. The decision came after a Cabinet argument in which Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her Foreign Secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, insisted that Britain take a firmer stand against UNESCO's financial mismanagement and anti-Western bias. Its director-general, Senegal's Amadou Mahtar M'Bow, has annoyed the U.S. and Britain by, among other things, promoting a plan under which UNESCO would set standards for international...
...Some people talk to each other and some don't, but relations are far from ideal," says Geoffrey M. Cooper, associate professor of pathology at the Medical School. "But its like crime on the streets. How do you get rid of it?" he adds...
...Committee (NORAID), the U.S.-based organization accused of funneling money and arms to the I.R.A. "The bomb," noted a Daily Mirror editorial, "may have been planted by an Irish terrorist, but the fingerprints upon it were American." Addressing the American Chamber of Commerce in London, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe warned the "misguided minority of Irish Americans [that] they are supporting and promoting terrorism." Subsequently, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Charles H. Price promised to ask American law-enforcement agencies to take every possible action against NORAID. He pointed out, though, that NORAID cannot be outlawed because it is protected...
Finally, last April, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe officially announced that Britain would have to surrender administration, but remained determined to fix terms whereby its colony could continue flourishing in the freewheeling style to which it was accustomed. That move prompted the Chinese for the first time to agree to address specific issues, and in June a "joint working group" began to thrash out the details...