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TIME'S editors met last year with Daniel Ortega Saavedra, a leader of Nicaragua's Sandinista government, and also with his contra guerrilla opponent, Eden Pastora Gomez. The exchanges can be remarkably frank, as was the case with Nicaragua's Ortega. (In a gracious prelude to a hard-hitting conversation, he presented Time Inc. Editor-in-Chief Henry Grunwald and TIME Managing Editor Ray Cave with a painting by a Nicaraguan artist...
...plan was fiercely opposed by right-wing Afrikaners. The new Parliament is itself an apt metaphor for apartheid, the official policy of separation of the races, since its three chambers are separate and unequal. The 178-member all-white House of Assembly will meet, as always, in a gracious, wood-paneled chamber. The 85 colored members of the new House of Representatives will sit in the old Senate chamber, while the 45 Indian members of the new House of Delegates will gather in an office building across the street. The existing parliamentary dining room will remain an all-white facility...
...group of women sit quietly chatting, their heads bowed over needlepoint and knitting, in the gracious parlor at Bourn Hall. The mansion's carved stone mantelpieces, rich wood paneling and crystal chandeliers give it an air of grandeur, a reflection of the days when it was the seat of the Earl De La Warr. In the well-kept gardens behind the house, Indian women in brilliant saris float on the arms of their husbands. The verdant meadows of Cambridgeshire lie serenely in the distance. To the casual observer, this stately home could be an elegant British country hotel...
...husband John Zaccaro. Recalls Stacks of the reunion: "Less than four months ago, a visit to Geraldine Ferraro's home in Queens was like a visit to any upper-middle-class dwelling. The dog roamed around the house. Ferraro was busy but not harassed. Her husband was gracious and relaxed." This week Stacks found Secret Service agents prowling the grounds, and a house full of aides, accountants and lawyers. A Plexiglas booth had been installed in the front yard to house the night guard. "The dog," Stacks reports, "is still roaming the house, although Missy has developed hip dysplasia...
...said of his party. He criticized "the policies of the comfortable past that do not answer the challenges of tomorrow." His followers gave Hart a warm ovation, and some wept in the realization that his candidacy was over. Others in the hall felt he had been less than gracious in defeat...