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...vision," even while keeping a wary distance from the Israeli peace offer. Both Hussein and Egypt's Mubarak were sorely tried by the P.L.O. during the Achille Lauro ordeal. Hussein was further irked at the cancellation of an Oct. 14 meeting in London between British Foreign Secretary Geoffrey Howe and two P.L.O. representatives; the session was called off after one of the P.L.O. members refused to endorse the right of Israel to exist. But Hussein last week carefully insisted that "at the right time under the right circumstances the P.L.O. will make its contribution to the objective of peace." Later...
...Argentina shipped corned beef, lumber and other goods worth more than $133 million annually to the United Kingdom. But since the war, a British embargo on Argentine imports has outlawed trade between the nations. Last week, as he embarked on a three-day visit to Brazil, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe told the House of Commons that Britain had decided unilaterally to lift the trade embargo. Howe, whose announcement coincided with the anniversary of last year's unsuccessful efforts to renew relations with Argentina, urged the government of President Raúl Alfonsín to join with Britain in new trade agreements...
...Geoffrey Ward, former editor of American Heritage, is the latest of many to explore those thickets. He does so by returning to F.D.R.'s origins. The Roosevelts, it turns out, were a strange and sometimes bizarre family, and their history illuminates many of F.D.R.'s foibles. The future President's father James was widower of 52 when he suddenly proposed marriage to the equally lofty Sara Delano, age 26. The reason the Delanos were so privileged was that Sara's father was one of those 19th century entrepreneurs who had made a fortune smuggling Turkish opium into China...
...most valuable commodity, and places like Dharavi will have none." Two: he's going to make a film about it. This project, Water (Paani in Hindi), has become such an obsession that despite commitments to direct Morgan Freeman in a film about Nelson Mandela and Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush in a sequel to Elizabeth, as well as co-writing a biopic on the life of Buddha, Kapur recently left the West after 10 years in London and Los Angeles and moved back to Bombay. "This," he says grandly...
HUCTW representative Geoffrey Carens alerted the Harvard community of the situation in an e-mail sent to several student groups including the Radcliffe Union of Students and the Harvard Progressive Student Labor Movement...