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...advisers "is in better shape with the true believers of the right than Howard Baker," because of Baker's vote for the Panama Canal treaties. Bush, who on Pennsylvania primary day was wearing gold cuff links bearing the vice-presidential seal (a gift from Nelson Rockefeller), has repeatedly brushed aside suggestions that he would settle for the No. 2 spot. Says he: "No way." But a close aide says that Bush might be willing to join the Reagan ticket in the end because of the Californian...
...white minority rule. South African leaders now face mounting pressure both from within and without to dismantle apartheid and give the country's 19 million blacks a share of political power. One sign of the assertive new black mood is a nationwide campaign to free jailed Nationalist Leader Nelson Mandela, president of the outlawed African National Congress (ANC). Even some progovernment Afrikaans newspapers and business leaders have joined with blacks in arguing that the government must negotiate with Mandela and other influential militants "before it is too late...
...Nelson Bunker Hunt is lying low these days, which is not easy for the 275 Ib. Croesus, whose silver market setback last month triggered Wall Street's worst panic in nearly two decades. Hunt had tried to corner silver and been badly squeezed, when prices plummeted from $21.50 per oz. to $10.20 in less than four days. Early last week Hunt was tucking into a steak dinner in the Rib Room of London's Carlton Tower hotel when a Merrill Lynch customer's man seated near by spotted him. After Hunt had returned to his room...
Operation QEII is not code-named for the passenger liner but for Her Britannic Majesty. In The Siege of Buckingham Palace by Walter Nelson (Little, Brown; 239 pages; $10.95), a fanatic Baghdad-based group named Bloody Christmas sets out to kidnap the Queen and "strike at the heart of the Western world." In return for her freedom, the guerrillas demand the release of all 156 terrorists held in British, West German and Israeli prisonsplus ?5 million sterling and a jet to Libya. Arabs being all too visible in England, the royal heist is conducted by I.R.A. Provos, members...
...Majesty and a young lady-in-waiting in the palace's royal apartments. Almost as pressing as the need to save the Queen is the absolute necessity of keeping the siege secret. Otherwise, more than 100,000 enraged Britons might storm the palace and ensure her death. Walter Nelson, a London-based American writer, builds his picaresque story to a touching denouement, with some time out for farce. Siege is his first novel, and it will be a hard one to follow...