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...Sadat and Begin up to the hills to revive the peace process. What, then, had gone wrong with Sadat's sacred mission? Many observers answer in one word: Begin. Warns a senior British diplomat: "Frankly, there's no chance of a Middle East peace as long as Begin remains Premier of Israel...
...could provide the Shah with a chance to isolate the extremists. That would allow him to pursue his plan to hold free parliamentary elections next year. So far, however, the otherwise efficient Iranian regime has not been able to take advantage of its opportunities. The Shah's forward-looking Premier, Jamshid Amouzegar, had better luck coping with the problems of industrialization than negotiating with Shi'ite mullahs. Unable to bridge the gap between mullahs and modernists, the otherwise able Amouzegar resigned early this week, and the Shah quickly replaced him with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, chairman of the Iranian Senate...
...into hostilities with another former friend, the People's Republic of China. The pro-American trend in Hanoi is all the more notable given the starchy posture of the victorious Vietnamese regime following the fall of Saigon in April 1975. For more than three years the government, headed by Premier Pham Van Dong, 72, insisted that the U.S. pay $3.25 billion in "war reparations" as an absolute precondition to any normal diplomatic relationship. Although Hanoi has yet to say so officially, that galling proviso has now been withdrawn...
...those concerns go a long way toward explaining the tractability of the Vietnamese government toward its former foe. As Premier Dong expressed it in an hour-long interview with the Congressmen: "The wind is behind us" in promoting closer Hanoi-Washington ties. Earlier, Dong had told an interviewer: "We have no interest whatsoever in creating problems detrimental to our country's reconstruction...
...rare, wasting disease of the nervous system and muscles. He cannot raise his head without great effort. He speaks only in a slurred monotone comprehensible to just a few intimates. Yet, at age 36, in spite of his heart-rending handicaps, Hawking is widely regarded as one of the premier scientific theorists of the 20th century, perhaps an equal of Einstein. His special province: the physics of black holes...