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...Lyall Breckon, director of the Office of Vietnam, Laos, and Kampuchea Affairs of the Department of State, said th U.S. hopes to see more people be allowed to emigrate legally from Vietnam. He said the U.S. also wants Vietnam to make good on its promise last year to release people from reeducation camps
Delegates also eagerly traded news about Christian communities that have survived, even thrived, under Mao (TIME, Dec. 16). One participant, former China Missionary Leslie Lyall, soberly suggested that the experiences on the mainland taught an important lesson. Believers in all countries, he warned, should begin memorizing Bible verses in case Christianity had to go underground in their countries as well...
...things, he got a job with the Detroit Free Press as a sports columnist. But when he showed up at the first game, the Lions management barred him from the press box. "He's done nothing but say derogatory things about the team," said Lion Public Relations Director Lyall Smith, "and I must assume the reason for his column is to say more derogatory things...
...rolling in, Booker's bosses decided that corporate authorship was a profitable hedge against what Chairman David Powell, who succeeded Sir Jock, calls "the hazards of tropical agriculture." Thus the company has bought controlling interest in the works of such British authors as John and Penelope Mortimer, Gavin Lyall, Francis Clifford and Robert Bolt (A Man For All Seasons). Now, in its latest acquisition, Booker has signed on an author every bit as big as Ian Fleming. For an amount it refuses to disclose, the company has acquired 51% of everything published since 1955 by famed Mystery Writer Agatha...
...Among the most beguiling are The French Doll, by Vincent O'Connor, which has a CIA hero and a racy Paris setting; The Interrogators, by Allan Prior, in which two doughty Scotland Yard men are hampered in their pursuit by their heavy drinking; Midnight Plus One, by Gavin Lyall, a kaleidoscopic Bondian yarn; and Cunning as a Fox, by Kyle Hunt (a pseudonym of John Creasey), in which the sleuth is a psychiatrist hired by the wanted teen-ager's frantic parents...