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Ellen M. Manganaro Westtown, Pa...
South Africa has for years vied with Israel for the title of the U.N.'s leading pa riah. A voluntary arms embargo against South Africa has been on the U.N.'s books since 1963, but as recently as two years ago, the U.S., Britain and France voted against a Third World effort to make the embargo mandatory. Resentment against South Africa has been building, however, since the Soweto riots began 17 months ago. It has been further fanned by the death in September of the imprisoned black political leader Stephen Biko. An autopsy, still to be released, reportedly...
...little girl," recalls Sonia Rykiel, "my mother always used to tell me, 'Keep your knees together like a lady!' She was always saying, 'Don't do this or that!' " Sonia, who today is a top Pa risian designer of ready-to-wear fashion, no longer has to worry about Maman's comments. But in the French fashion industry's showings of spring clothes last week, some of her new numbers did not seem cal culated to endear her to too many other women ? though they should cause countless male eyes to go into orbit and may well...
DIED. Ellwood A. Geiges, 82, creator of hand signals used by football referees to indicate penalties; of a stroke; in Devon, Pa. While serving as a referee at a Syracuse-Cornell game in the late 1920s, Geiges was asked by a radio broadcaster to keep the press better informed. He improvised hand signals for offside, holding, illegal shift and time out, which were later adopted by all officials...
...full title is His Beatitude, the Most Reverend Theodosius, Archbishop of New York, Metropolitan of All-America and Canada. Theodosius, 44, was born Theodore Lazor, the son of a Slavic immigrant who worked in a steel plant in Canonsburg, Pa. (pop. 11,400), for half a century. The election of the last primate, Russian-born Metropolitan Ireney, in 1965 exposed a division between Russian speaking elders and younger members anxious to Americanize the church...