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...unlikely setting for a Middle East peace conference. Leeds Castle, a moat-surrounded medieval fortress, is set like a crown jewel in the placid English countryside southeast of London. Henry VIII once lived there with Anne Boleyn, his second wife, before love soured and he had her beheaded. Last week the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Israel sat down at Leeds Castle to try to weave together what was left of the frayed threads of the Middle East peace initiative. The two days of talks between Israel's Moshe Dayan and Egypt's Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel were presided...
Next day in the castle's elegant conference room, overlooking the moat with its graceful black swans, Vance, Dayan and Kamel and their respective aides got down to direct talks. Although Vance sees his role as "more than a mediator, more than a postman," in the words of one U.S. official, he put forward no U.S. proposals during the meeting. Dayan and Kamel did about 90% of the talking in the sessions, which lasted for nearly seven hours...
From behind his moat of respectability and silence, Castle has already launched his personal crusade against apartheid and the Western governments that would preserve it for economic and political reasons. He has leaked Uncle Remus to the Russians, but, as he tells his contact, "I'll fight beside you in Africa, Boris - not in Europe." Castle does not have to fight at all. He simply goes too far and winds up in a typical Graham Greene purgatory...
...Hospital crowded a little closer so that some 2,000 unexpected visitors could find places to sleep. Near the city zoo, residents saw a strange sight befitting the arctic scene: reindeer roaming in their backyards. The herd had escaped from the zoo by simply walking across a snow-packed moat...
...didn't. We spent a long day waiting, the water pouring off the shelter roof making a little moat around us. We sat in the cold and damp with cold, sopping feet, watching the usually docile river before us swell and grow violent and more brown toward afternoon. Some serious books had crept into our packs since August and these occupied our attentions for a while; an attempt at playing Philosophers' Camp soon bogged down in an absured debate on symmetry. We cheered each other with thoughts of rainbows stretching over the mountains, but as the afternoon wore...