Word: hope
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...little more than "diplomatic chitchat" and assorted trivia. One cable marked SECRET was a published interview. Other sensitive items included copies of the Congressional Record and a book on fish protein concentrate. But some papers were not so banal. Humphrey admitted releasing confidential cables to Truong in the forlorn hope of freeing his mistress. The two defense lawyers cooperated throughout most of the trial, but at the end Humphrey's attorney dramatically turned on Truong, accusing him of being a professional spy who had duped Humphrey into his misdeeds...
Italians had reasons for both hope and alarm last week following the obsequies for assassinated former Premier and Christian Democratic Leader Aldo Moro. In local elections affecting two provinces and 816 cities and towns, voters turned out in record numbers (3.4 million, or 10% of the electorate). Shunning the extremes, they cast their ballots for the parties of the political center and handed an unexpected loss to Italy's Communist Party. But as if to prove that the country would have no reprieve from violence, terrorists of the Red Brigades and other radical groups carried out a series...
...complicating problem is that the Israelis are continuing to arm the Christian Lebanese along the southern border. When they eventually withdraw from the remaining territory they occupy, the Israelis hope to leave behind them a buffer zone of Christian villages. So, while the Christians are getting stronger, the Palestinians are getting angrier. "What right do all those countries have to be here?" demands one Palestinian. "They are doing Israel's dirty work...
Friends of both families hope that Princess Nur will light up Hussein's domestic life, which has been almost as stormy as his quarter-century reign over the embattled Hashemite kingdom. After establishing early in his adulthood a reputation as a playboy with a roving eye, the King was married briefly at 19 to a distant cousin. Following a divorce in 1957, he wed an English girl named Toni Gardiner and rechristened her Princess Muna el Hussein (Desire of Hussein). The King's desire waned in 1972, after he met beauteous Alia Toukan, 23, the U.S.-educated daughter...
...accent is on good-looking girls and guys. "Nobody gives a damn about the subject," says Joel Segal, senior vice president of the Ted Bates advertising agency. "The theme will be dopey broads and handsome men. Women mostly control the tube, and NBC's hope is that enough of them will spot one of their pretty men and stick around." Adds TV Consultant Mike Dann: "The trend is toward fantasy. There is more flesh exposed, but there really isn't much sex." It is a pattern that Silverman, who started it all when he was chief programmer...