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Other possible solutions include a gradual transfer of authority from Britain to China over a 15-to-30-year period, or joint rule by a two-nation committee. Another way out of the impasse would be a deal that makes an artificial but face-saving distinction between the recognition of sovereignty and its actual exercise. Britain could recognize Peking's claim, fly the Chinese flag alongside the Union Jack over Government House and make other symbolic concessions while maintaining its present administrative control. Noted a British diplomat: "This would replace the fiction that Hong Kong is part of Britain...
With rare unanimity, however, economists warn that the upturn, whenever it comes, will be painfully slow and gradual. Robert Ortner, chief economist of the U.S. Department of Commerce, ; observes that after past recessions the total output of goods and services on average has jumped 7% in the first year of recovery. "This time it will be less than that," he says. That is putting the case very mildly; many private economists guess that the upswing will be only half as vigorous as it traditionally is. Walter Heller, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists, has compiled a self...
DIED. Sobhuza II, 83, king of Swaziland and the longest-reigning monarch in the world; in Mbabane, Swaziland. The autocratic but mild-mannered Sobhuza ruled his small, landlocked southern African nation of 550,000 by balancing observance of his country's ancient traditions with gradual introduction of modern technologies. A man of simple tastes, he shunned his two royal palaces, preferring to live at his kraal of mud huts and to sleep outdoors on warm nights on a reed mat. He is survived by more than 100 wives and an estimated 500 children...
...foreign occupiers removed from Lebanon, seemed no closer. Syrians, Palestinians and Israelis now find their interests so en tangled in the country's political quagmire that some parties to the negotiations despair of finding a solution. The best out come, says a Western diplomat, might be a gradual dissipation of the situation, with no grand settlement that would define winners and losers. If the P.L.O. slowly pulled out of Beirut with little or no fan fare, he says, perhaps Israel and even Syria would ultimately find reasons to bring their troops home...
Ivan's problems with Gloria have an effect on his professional life as well. Obsessed with trying to get her back, he finds himself unable to finish his latest play, in spite of his director's demands for revision. It is this aspect of the plot--Ivan's gradual realization that Gloria is more of a disruptive than a stabilizing influence in his life--that sustains the movie. Ultimately, Author! Author! is not a typical "family film." As much as it extolls family life, its final message is on, of praise for individuality and self-assurance. Ivan learns to share...