Word: javier
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...Angeles and the Limn in San Francisco, and will soon open in New York City. The furniture draws smiles from viewers with its unlikely shapes, Pop art palette and a look of imminent collapse. Table legs lean toward disaster and supports bend as if fatigued. Spanish Designer Javier Mariscal's glass-and-red-metal trolley, called Hilton (all Memphis furniture is named for hotels), has a drunken, unsteady look due to its listing frame, although it is actually serviceable and solid. Italian Designer Michele De Lucchi's marble table, Sebastopole, seems to balance precariously on two brown bowling...
...unusually friendly meeting, considering the coolness that South Africa generally displays toward the U.N. After several talks, including a long working lunch accompanied by vintage South African wines, U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and officials of Prime Minister P.W. Botha's government announced that they had hammered out a detailed agreement on long-deadlocked negotiations over one of southern Africa's most intractable problems: achieving independence for the South Africa-controlled territory of Namibia. Declared Foreign Minister Roelof F. Botha: "We have today resolved all the outstanding issues...
Club President Javier Arango '85, also responsible for the club's inception, oversees "ground activities." Meetings, movies, speakers and informal gatherings to familiarize members of the Harvard community with the joys of flying are planned, Arango said...
Iraq was clearly on the defensive, though, and appealed last week to United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar for help in arranging a truce. Having provoked the fighting in September 1980 to regain what he claimed was lost territory, Saddam Hussein now wants out of the war on almost any terms that could be described as honorable. Iran so far has rejected all offers. Even before the present worldwide oil glut, Iraq's petroleum production was down from a peak of about 4 million bbl. per day to about 1 million bbl. per day. Iraqi...
Washington's skepticism about the U.N. has been seconded by the international organization's Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuellar. In a surprisingly pessimistic summary of the U.N's condition, Pérez de Cuellar, 62, a Peruvian career diplomat who began his five-year term as Secretary-General last January declared in his first annual report to the General Assembly, in September, that we are perilously close to a new international anarchy." The Secretary-General's main concern was that nations were increasingly ignoring the U.N. and its institutions, particularly the Security Council...