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...stress how the Bretons and Basques thrive largely because of the survival of their languages. More organizations like midas (the European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages) must be founded to help the minor languages - and thereby cultures - prosper in a globalized Europe and world. Vinh Prag Arhus, Denmark Thanks for this fascinating article. As a London-based Cornishman, I'm surprised that you omitted the Celtic links between Cornwall and Brittany. Nor did you include the Catalans, whose domain stretches from around Béziers in France to Barcelona in Spain. The more that globalized trade...
...Interior William Clark, an old Reagan crony who served as chief of staff in California and, not very successfully, as National Security Adviser in Washington. In the Cabinet, George Shultz may bow out as Secretary of State at the end of the first term, presenting Reagan with another fateful prag-matist-conservative choice. Leading candidates: Middle East Envoy Donald Rumsfeld, a non-ideologue, and Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger, yet another pal from California days and a reflexive hardliner...
...makes his feelings known in any way that will not land him in jail. Hotel clerks save their haughtiest look for Russian travel groups. Even the B-girls are unfriendly. "We always recognize a Russian by his pointed shoes," says a miniskirted blonde at Dresden's Café Prag. "We refuse, of course." Not that the East Germans think much kindlier of their other East European neighbors. They have their own Polish jokes...
...really wasn't," Miss Prag laughed. "The thing was to try to say in the headline what we were talking about without being totally explicit-without using the word 'vagina' in the headline. The copy could have said, 'the trickiest deodorant problem a girl has isn't under her arms.' It's just that I think that's harsh and unfeminine and I'm hung up on the word 'little...
After promising to send Miss Prag a copy of the article, I said goodbye...