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Ever since his release last November following eleven months of detention, Walesa has been uncharacteristically subdued. Solidarity has been equally quiescent, even though its underground leaders have issued a number of vague appeals for popular defiance to the military rule of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski. For its part, the debt-ridden Polish government is eager to project a veneer of normality, a task that is becoming increasingly important with the impending June visit of Pope John Paul...
...Politburo, however, remains dominated by septuagenarians, some of them ailing; Premier Pham Van Dong is 77, while Secretary General Le Duan just turned 76. The Vietnamese Communist Party, which has 1.7 million members, is divided and confused. There is no clear doctrine on topics ranging from farming collectives to foreign relations. Visitors to Hanoi now hear the government bitterly criticized, with the most pointed complaints coming from cadres. Some government workers are so desperate that they even approach foreigners on the street and offer to change money illegally, at the rate of 75 dong to $1, vs. the official rate...
...with a handsome Guardsman's mustache, Photographer Norman Parkinson, 69, can certainly hold his own in front of the camera's lens. As Britain's premier fashion photographer, he hasn't done all that badly behind it either. Joining him at Sotheby's in New York City last week for a one-man show of prints taken from his new book, Fifty Years of Style and Fashion, were two of his favorite models: Iman and Mick Jagger's current flame, Jerry Hall. Before the opening, Parkinson reports, he gave each model a piece...
Late in the Johnson Administration, at the Glassboro summit, Robert McNamara patiently tried to persuade Premier Alexei Kosygin that it was in the interests of both countries to forswear large-scale antiballistic missile (ABM) defenses, since a defensive arms race would only escalate the offensive one already under way. Each side would feel compelled to increase the number and destructiveness of weapons with which to "penetrate" the defenses of the other. Eventually, in the first round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) during the first Nixon Administration, the Soviets agreed to limit ABMs...
After picking up the game in seventh grade, Finn quickly matured into one of the top players in Philadelphia--the nation's premier lacrosse breeding ground. She led her high school squad to three straight league championships. In her spare time, she managed to captain the school's field hockey and basketball teams to a few titles as well...