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...deals. Sales to South Africa, Chile and Argentina were discouraged because of those nations' domestic policies, and an unofficial ban was placed on future sales to Libya after its invasion of Chad, a former French colony. "Right now we're in a period of reflection," says a top govern ment minister. But Mitterrand by no means wants France out of the business: on a visit to Saudi Arabia last month he assured King Khalid that sales to the Persian Gulf region would continue. They discussed potential Saudi investment
Privately the ministers intimated that if there is no discernible economic improve ment by spring, Thatcher will have to change her tack or face several senior Cabinet resignations. That could well spell the end of her prime ministership...
...touch the unhappiness of the whole world in one single man," he wrote. "And as long as we don't give him up, then nothing is given up." The aphorism is a frag ment of autobiography. Born in 1905 in a Danube port city in Bulgaria, Canetti claims that his Turkish-raised grandfather boasted of knowing 17 languages. After his fa ther died in Manchester, England, Canetti zigzagged between the Zu rich of Dada, Lenin and Joyce, and the Vienna of Freud, finally earning a Ph.D. in chemistry. But the young doctor chose literature instead of laboratories. Auto...
Cyrus Vance, former secretary of state and last year's speaker, and Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, (D.-N.Y.), a former professor of Education who spoke in 1977, did not receive honoraries, marking a departure from previous tradition. Honoraries and commencement speakers are customarily not announced until commenc%ment...
...blood loss was steady, not gushing, and doctors had no trouble in compensating with transfusions. The ma jority of gunshot victims come into a hos pital much worse off, O'Leary says. In fact, he contends that the President would probably have been all right even if treat ment had been delayed by as much as 20 minutes. Fortunately, Ronald Reagan and the nation did not have to test that judgment...