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...pets at present, but once was the happy owner of an alley cat named Fritz. She confesses to "a love for the cuddliness, the softness of cats." Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison, who contributed much of the reporting for the cover, provides a home for Victoria, a ten-year-old Persian Angora with silky white hair and green eyes. Fond though she is of Victoria, Harbison stops short of a blanket endorsement of the whole species. Says she: "Victoria is not like a lot of other cats. She is extremely affectionate, and she'll flirt with strangers because she wants...
Prior to last week's summit, the Fahd plan had drawn favorable comment from Western Europe, mild encouragement from the Reagan Administration and qualified endorsement from Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who called it a "good beginning." Two weeks ago, the plan was approved by the five Persian Gulf states that, along with the Saudis, constitute the newly formed Gulf Cooperation Council...
...military personnel who worked with the armed forces of Egypt, Sudan, Somalia and Oman. The aim of the maneuvers: to test the slowly evolving ability of the U.S. to carry out the vows of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan to help the states in the oil-rich Persian Gulf area resist a Soviet-launched invasion...
Although the resulting relationships may be heartening, the income is not. Few catteries provide their owners with livable incomes. Richard Gebhardt, 50, the most famous and respected cat judge in the nation, must raise dogs (Japanese Chins) in addition to championship Persians to make ends meet. Says Gebhardt, at his Denville, N.J., kennel-cattery: "Raising dogs can be big business. You can depend on it for your livelihood. Cat people have to love the animal, because there's nothing to get from it but personal ego satisfaction." Gebhardt's glow is provided by Voodoo, a great black Persian...
...Europe is desirable. But they are sincere only to the extent that success in ridding Europe of nuclear missiles comes hand in hand with successfully out-negotiating Moscow. There cannot be one without the other, for there will be other issues--Afghanistan, Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, Namibia, the Persian Gulf, maybe even other Genevas--that preclude a view of current talks as a be-all and end-all. If the U.S. makes concessions this time around--even if concessions mean a step toward lessening the haunting specter of nuclear war--much credibility and resolve is lost for future encounters...