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Those Cambridge encounters further propelled Frayn away from asbestos sales and into an exemplary career as journalist, novelist and playwright. While still an undergraduate, he contributed to the premier humor magazine Punch. Straight out of school, he wrote news and columns for the Manchester Guardian and then the Observer. Turning to fiction, he produced five deft, whimsical novels centered on class conflicts and old school ties. In the past decade he has emerged as one of Britain's leading playwrights. His glimpse of backstage pandemonium, Noises Off, was a Broadway hit two seasons ago. Seven earlier scripts have been produced...
...France seems set to begin a historic experiment in power sharing. It is up to Mitterrand to choose within 20 days a Premier who reflects the new right-of-center majority. Since his Socialists ran better than anticipated, the President has a stronger position, but his task will still be difficult. Had the conservatives scored the resounding victory that had been predicted, Mitterrand would have had little choice but to name as Premier Jacques Chirac, 53, the mayor of Paris and the energetic leader of the R.P.R., the largest opposition party. Chirac had made it clear that if he were...
Mitterrand now has more options. He is expected to show respect for the prevailing conservative trend, but he can find someone in the opposition closer to his own thinking. He might, for example, consider former Premier Jacques Chaban-Delmas, 71, who served as Premier from 1969 to 1972. Another possibility is Simone Veil, 58, a former Health Minister and onetime president of the European Parliament...
...whirlwind campaign in Paris, where he proclaimed, "It is time to say that [those] who have been governing us do not represent either the values or the history of France and have to go!" The Socialists also trotted out some vote-getting rhetoric. "I promise you, my friends," cried Premier Laurent Fabius, "that if we stay in power, a year from now France will have inflation of 2%--among the lowest rates in the world!" To back that claim, the Socialists produced the most recent monthly inflation figures. They showed that in February consumer prices had actually declined .2%. That...
...Prime Ministers. "There are few statesmen who have had such influence on international affairs and social change," said United Nations Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar at a memorial service at Stockholm's city hall. Said U.S. Secretary of State George Shultz, who met privately with Soviet Premier Nikolai Ryzhkov to discuss bilateral concerns shortly after the funeral: "Palme was a man of compassion. We share your grief...