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...Secretary Shultz floated the idea of reprisal on his way to a meeting with the foreign ministers of France, Italy and Britain in a château near Paris. That is, of course, impossible until it is known with assurance who is responsible for the bombings. British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe seemed concerned that Reagan, flushed by his success in Grenada, might lash out at a Lebanese rebel group, or even Syria or Iran. Howe pointedly remarked that massive retaliation would be imprudent. Says a State Department official: "The Brits were just seeking to reassure themselves that we were...
...force that could replace the U.S. troops on Grenada. The Thatcher government said that it would consider participation in such a venture, and also took pains to deny that the U.S. decision had in any way weakened the alliance. Washington's lack of consultation, said British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe, was "regrettable. But the fact that that has happened does not cast any doubt on the firmness of our commitment to NATO and all that means...
...lack of focus pervaded the campaign effort virtually from the moment Glenn announced for the presidency in April, according to Grandmaison's critics, who certainly included White. In fact, White began putting together a reshuffled team long before Grandmaison was actually sacked. He hired a political consultant, Geoffrey Hockman, his former Ohio State roommate, to undertake a three-week study of the campaign, and last week made Hockman his deputy. He lured aboard savvy Washington Lobbyist Thomas Boggs to handle congressional relations. And newly appointed Keefe had actually been advising the campaign informally for several months. Says White...
...Fowler, together with three colleagues, Sir Fred Hoyle and Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge, provided the answer. In exquisite detail, they showed how the stellar furnaces forge progressively heavier atoms out of lighter ones. They provided a number of pathways for the fusion reactions, including one in which a giant star eventually explodes in a super nova and unleashes forces powerful enough to create the heaviest known naturally occurring elements such as uranium. Fowler subsequently refined these ideas so he could predict exactly what ele ments would be found in a particular type of star. These predictions have been al most...
...returns. Salespeople provide little service. Dressing areas are communal, mirrored rooms with harsh lighting, places of pandemonium on weekends. Women enter, check modesty at the door, and frantically try on designer fashions with no labels but with thinly disguised codes on price tags: RL is Ralph Lauren, GEB Geoffrey Beene, BLA Bill Blass...