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...million hotel-casino in Atlantic City. New Jersey residents opposed to South African racial policies persuaded city officials to block the project. Kerzner's newest scheme calls for a floating casino, "a five-star hotel on water," that would provide ocean-going gambling aboard a passenger liner cruising between South Africa and Europe...
...since then, Shultz's authority has been oozing away. The Middle East plan fizzled. Then Clark, with hardly a word to the State Department, decided to fire Arms Control Director Eugene Rostow and replace him with Kenneth Adelman, a young hard-liner whose slender credentials caused an uproar on Capitol Hill. Two weeks ago, State Department Loyalist Philip Habib was replaced as Middle East envoy by Robert McFarlane, Clark's deputy at the National Security Council. Although he will report to Shultz, McFarlane, in a convoluted arrangement, will remain an assistant to Clark. In both cases, the White...
...last stop, probably only a few hours before the fire, had been Las Palmas in the Canary Islands, 155 miles off the northwest coast of Africa. Venezuelan Defense Ministry officials believe that the Cloud's three British and nine Ghanaian sailors were picked up by a Panamanian liner and taken to Senegal. The Cloud then drifted for 62 days, during which it traveled some 1,800 miles before crossing paths with the Maracaibo...
...Capitol Hill, some Democrats thought they saw Enders mellowing ever so slightly from the hard Reagan-Clark-Kirkpatrick line. "Enders was in a process of evolution," says Democratic Senator Paul Tsongas, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee. "He was a real hard-liner two years ago. But now he's talking about a dual track of military and political solutions." Agrees Democrat Clarence Long, chairman of a House foreign operations subcommittee: "I never thought when I first met him that I'd lament the day he left. But I began to find him quite reasonable and moderate...
...Washington.' " The eyes whip over the pages. "Howzabout this? 'Security is really tight in the President's box. One agent checked me for bombs and threw out half my monologue.' " Hope's memory is as big as his desert mansion. Today's one-liner is stored away for use as tomorrow's ad lib. "Pseudosmart. That's the way I describe my stuff." says he. "I want the audience to enjoy it like...