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...part, President Carter declared that the U.S. would be willing to help guarantee Afghanistan's neutrality, along with other nations including the Soviet Union, if the troop withdrawal came first. The gesture came in a cable to President Josip Broz Tito of Yugoslavia; despite his grave illness, Tito had written both Carter and Brezhnev and implored them to preserve detente. The prevailing view in the Carter Administration, however, was that the Kremlin's campaign was a "propaganda exercise" aimed at dividing Western ranks and blunting Washington's anti-Soviet retaliation. Other countries, meanwhile, were getting into...
...circulation blockage, the formidable 87-year-old patient at first appeared to be recovering strongly. Three weeks later, however, he suffered a severe relapse, with kidney failure and heart problems. Last week the terse bulletins issued by his team of eight Yugoslav doctors said his condition "continues to be grave," in spite of some response to "necessary measures of intensive treatment." Those measures included kidney dialysis. Then late in the week, he contracted pneumonia...
World bankers and Finance Ministers will face a tense period as they attempt to muddle through the next few years of growing OPEC wealth and growing Third World indebtedness. New York Investment Banker Felix Rohatyn with grave concern calls the situation a "highly unstable base for our system." Banks will undoubtedly have to "roll over" or refinance some debts, just as many strapped households consolidate their old loans. David Rockefeller and Bank of America President A.W. Clausen also stress that the IMF will have to carry a heavier share of Third World borrowing, especially from the poorest countries like...
Ekland did see him through his next trauma, the massive heart attack he suffered in Hollywood in 1964. Sellers has told people that a vision of Peg appeared to him and beckoned him back from the grave. He also says that he was clinically dead for 2½ minutes and that this gives him a further point of identification with Chance. "They later told me that I did not suffer any brain damage, but I have reason to believe I did. My mind has deteriorated since then." Citing absentmindedness and a general vagueness, he says, "I think I'm probably going...
...natural and human." Nothing is abstract and unimaginable--from deciding on budget expenditures to dealing with undergraduate's problems. "This is where the buck stops," he says, adding that his hardest decisions come when he has to make tenure decisions. "To be deciding somebody else's future is very grave," he notes. But as Carleton's President Robert Edwards says, Stanley has survived in "great and glorious fashion. He has demonstrated that he can say 'no' with grace...