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Last week Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith met at Gibraltar aboard the assault ship H.M.S. Fearless for what Smith called "the last, last chance" of agreement before Rhodesia goes its own way. It was also a slim chance, since both men have made pledges that are difficult to retract. Smith has vowed that Rhodesia's 220,000 whites will rule its 4,000,000 blacks for his and his children's lifetime -though he concedes that his grandchildren may be on their own. Wilson is publicly bound by a pledge of what has come...
Commonwealth Wrath. The openings for negotiation at Gibraltar remained as small as the stakes were large. "If I give way on any vital point," said Smith, "I might find 100% of Rhodesians against acceptance." Yet if Wilson backed down, he would have to face the wrath of black nations in the Commonwealth and, humiliatingly, ask the United Nations to withdraw its sanctions. Also, he presumably does not wish to be remembered as the Prime Minister who consigned Rhodesia's black majority to the same apartheid fate as that endured by the blacks of South Africa...
Married. Jayne Harries, 16, Britain's runaway of the year and heiress to a London banking fortune; and Gavin Hodge, 23, a mod hairdresser she met at a party last April; on Gibraltar. No stranger to the headlines, Jayne had newsmen and her frantic parents chasing her two weeks ago when she and Gavin eloped to Europe. But the folks finally gave in when they found that the kids were really that way about each other...
...with Moreau herself that the director achieves his finest work. She has always had trouble juggling erotica and neurotica, and some of her latest films (Viva Maria, Sailor from Gibraltar) have made her seem to be slipping. With Bride she regains her stature as one of France's major actresses. As she approaches each deadly assignment, Moreau exhales a melancholy resignation that gives the scenes the inevitability of a tribal rite, at once primitive and sophisticated...
...Civil War, when the new government began showing interest in its overseas possessions. Aid and advice have been flowing from Madrid ever since, but recently Franco has stepped up both, partially as insurance against possible disorders and partly to help Spain win African allies in its bid to recover Gibraltar from Britain...