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...spent eleven days on the island. Talbott gathered notes on the Soviet presence, spoke with Cubans about Africa, and met with Fidel Castro for 2½ hours of freewheeling discussion. "Most heads of state I've encountered seem weighted down by their jobs," reports Talbott. "Not the Cuban Premier. He obviously has a lot of fun being Fidel Castro-and he does it well...
...sides. This was a theme stressed by Vice President Walter Mondale, who arrived in Israel last week on a four-day good-will visit in honor of the country's 30th anniversary. While publicly stressing the "solid and unshakeable commitment" linking the U.S. to Israel, he privately urged Premier Menachem Begin and other Israeli leaders to show more flexibility...
...pretense of innocence. In a final statement, read by four of the defendants, they told the court that all those on trial were militant Red Brigades members who assumed "collectively and in entirety responsibility for every one of its past, present and future actions." The kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro this spring by other Red Brigades terrorists, declared one of the defendants, was "a leap forward of high quality." Even as the jury was deliberating, two gunmen followed former Antiterrorist Squad Chief Antonio Esposito, 36, onto a Genoa bus and shot and killed him before horrified passengers. They...
Peking recalled its ambassador to Hanoi, then summarily closed three Vietnamese consulates in southern China. Earlier this month China's Vice Premier, Teng Hsiao-p'ing, declared a halt to aid to Viet Nam. "China's cash grants to Viet Nam already amount to $10 billion," he told a group of journalists from Thailand. "The only thing wrong is that we have given Viet Nam too much," he added, referring to the vast amounts of military aid given Hanoi during the war, including 80% of the Viet Cong's weapons...
...million personal fortune to help pay the company's debts of more than $100 million. But a group of creditor banks refused to allow this, explaining that most of Boussac's property was already tied up as collateral against previous loans. The French government, in keeping with Premier Raymond Barre's free-market philosophy, will not come to the rescue with taxpayers' money...