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Diplomatic activity in the region has been hectic. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, for example, has conferred with the leaders of nonaligned countries about a peace initiative. "There is a glimmer of hope," said an Arab official last week. "For the first time the Iranians seem willing to entertain conversation about a settlement...
...Fidel Castro's onetime comrade-in-arms and a quixotically unsuccessful exporter of revolution in Latin America, the late Ernesto ("Che") Guevara is a Marxist cult figure of high standing. Last week his chief legacy was a hot capitalist property and the object of hectic legal maneuvering in London. As the result of a legal action by the Bolivian government, a British judge upheld an injunction on Sotheby's auction house, preventing the sale of the original diaries of the Argentine-born guerrilla leader. The court order will allow Bolivia to continue its efforts to recover the documents...
...agile Jackson, flirting with the double danger of diplomatic and political disaster throughout the hectic week, ended it with some claims to success. He calmed the Farrakhan issue by disavowing the renegade minister's hateful words and returned to Washington with 48 men freed from Castro's prisons: 22 Americans jailed for alleged criminal offenses, mostly related to drugs, and 26 anti-Castro Cubans who were granted entry into the U.S. (see following story...
...election eve Mondale's campaign plane was over California, nearing the end of a 25-hour, 5,620-mile coast-to-coast blitz. The candidate had been in fine fettle, rousing partisan audiences in New Jersey, West Virginia and New Mexico. He seemed somehow to be thriving on the hectic pace and its near sleepless nights. Finally confident that the elusive goal was at hand, the Minnesotan's staff broke out bottles and let spirits soar. The former Vice President gleefully awarded T shirts imprinted with I SURVIVED AIR MONDALE to those who had made the trip, and read...
...organization is its seriousness," says Shaw. "If you're not committed 100%, you're in the wrong outfit." Numerary Joseph Billmeier, who directs the Opus center in Milwaukee, says that Opus kept him on "an even keel" during his New York stockbroker days, and "sanctified" a hectic career...