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...Frenchman's intellect. Egypt's Anwar Sadat made sense to Carter. "I wouldn't mind spending a weekend fishing with him," said Carter about Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau. While he was in London, the President met with the leaders of 16 nations from Luxembourg to Greece. He was armed with personal fact sheets and psychological profiles of each...
Died. Prince Charles of Luxembourg, 49, younger brother of the reigning Grand Duke Jean of Luxembourg; of a heart attack; at his estate in Florence, Italy. A dashing, fun-loving sportsman, Charles was long active in promoting business and industry in his pocket principality. In 1967 he wed Joan Douglas Dillon, daughter of former U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon...
...know who Rosa Luxembourg is? If you do, a friend of mine will buy you an ice cream cone. If not, Elzbieta Ettinger-Chodakouska will enlighten you about this early 20th century orthodox marxist. Luxembourg wrote critiques of imperialism and revisionism and should be an interesting topic. The talk is scheduled for 8:00 at 10 Garden St but you have to call 495-8600 in advance for tickets...
Offers of aid came from the U.S., Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Greece and Luxembourg. The Swiss offered to send specially trained dog teams to help sniff out any remaining bodies. But while digging out from the disaster, President Ceausescu still had time to order an investigation into shoddy construction practices revealed by the earthquake on the outskirts of Bucharest, where new and ostensibly sturdy buildings developed glaring cracks in their walls...
Joining the Howard Law faculty, Harris increasingly devoted her energies to Democratic politics. At the 1964 convention she seconded Lyndon Johnson's nomination; later she served him as the nation's first black female ambassador-to Luxembourg. By 1970 she was a partner in a blue-chip Washington law firm. Along the way, Harris also broke onto the billion-dollar boards of IBM, Scott Paper and Chase Manhattan...