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...friends. He was an early supporter of Los Angeles' mayor Tom Bradley, a Democrat and a black. Says Smith's law partner Paul Ziffren, a Democrat active in civil libertarian causes: "Smith has a strong and pure sense of noblesse oblige." Smith's second wife Jean is also heavily engaged in civic affairs; the attorney has four grown children from his first marriage, which ended in divorce. Smith is a fastidiously groomed, buttoned-down Establishment figure, but his establishment is open to practically anyone with ability and motivation. That attitude should serve him well in Washington...
...Salvador. Local children, black-veiled peasant women and silver-haired men filled the pews alongside relatives of the deceased. Inside the coffins lay the bodies of two New York nuns, Sisters Ita Ford and Maura Clarke. Along with another U.S. nun, Sister Dorothy Kazel, and a lay worker, Jean Donovan, they had been murdered by right-wing terrorists who regarded their relief activities among the poor as "Communist work...
...that, Giscard's control has not been total. The present trouble began in the autumn of 1979 when Le Canard reported that the President had, as both Finance Minister and President, accepted gifts of diamonds worth more than $240,000 from the tyrannical Central African Republic "Emperor" Jean-Bédel Bokassa, who was deposed last year with the help of French troops. Le Canard also published Giscard's 1978 income tax return, pointing out that he continued to be an active shareholder in the Paris Bourse while making decisions that presumably could affect his stock prices. Then...
DIED. Romain Gary, 66, Lithuanian-born hero of the Free French, diplomat and novelist (The Roots of Heaven, Lady L), whose former wife, Actress Jean Seberg, committed suicide last year; of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Paris. Gary met Seberg, his second wife, while serving as France's consul general in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. They were divorced in 1970. Last year he charged that the FBI had brought on her miscarriage and eventual suicide by leaking a story that falsely claimed she was pregnant by a member of the Black Panther Party. In a final...
...surprisingly, critics of the James family have ignored Alice's meager accomplishments, concentrating instead upon the lives and works of her famous and successful brothers. In Alice James: A Biography, however, Jean Strouse offers compelling reasons for focusing attention on the youngest member of the family. Working largely from James family letters and Alice's unpublished diary, Strouse beautifully reconstructs the life of a woman frustrated by the expectations of her father and the examples of her over-achieving siblings. Cut off from many of her brothers' opportunities because of her sex and age, Alice remained far too inhibited...