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...said, "don't get lost on side issues like the [Arab] boycott. Solve the big issue and you solve the boycott." Sadat has ended a feud with President Hafez Assad over Syria's intervention in Lebanon, but Egypt's relations with neighboring Libya are still hectic. "I consider Muammar Gaddafi my son," said Sadat, "but how can I believe anything he says when he never means anything he says...
...radio pitches, it would all be over. Each candidate would make his final, election-eve television appeal?Jimmy Carter from a relaxed setting in his study in small-town Plains, Ga.; Gerald Ford from a site to be selected at the last moment, depending on his hectic closing schedule. Then, relieved that the campaign had ended, millions of Americans would cast ballots. Other millions, unmoved by it all, would stay home?and perhaps decide the outcome...
...Japanese mother playing happily with her child looks as if she had all the time in the world. Actually, Crown Princess Michiko of Japan stole a few moments from her hectic schedule to celebrate her 42nd birthday with Princess Nori, 7, the youngest of her three children, and Nori's pet dogs (they are chin, Japanese spaniels). In honor of the occasion, the crown princess granted a rare press conference and told reporters about her official visits this year to Yugoslavia, Jordan and Britain. As for the royal birthday, the princess joked: "You know, my classmates hate this time...
...feng" were plastered up across Peking in full view of foreign residents. Although no official statement was issued, several news agencies, citing the usual "reliable sources," reported that Hua had been named both party Chairman and head of the key Military Affairs Commission. Newsmen stationed in Peking noted unusually hectic activity at government offices near T'ien An Men Square; U.S. diplomats believed that a high-level party meeting was in progress, presumably to discuss and confirm Hua's appointment...
...secretary, says she hasn't had much to do yet this year. But when the semester kicks off, every student who wants to play in any sport has to fill out an eligibility form--they must all be channelled through her--and then, she says, it can get really hectic. Football manager Fleischaker says he used to think most of the forms players have to fill out--relating to health, academic standing and general well-being--were just more red tape; but now, in his third year of Harvard managing, he says he thinks it's all basically necessary. Mitchell...