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...some areas. Proposals for two new whale sanctuaries, in the South Atlantic and the South Pacific, were shot down again. Such moves require the support of three-fourths of voting members rather than a simple majority. "It's a very high hoop to have to jump through," says Margi Prideaux, Australian director of the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. But the breakthrough came in the bold new Mexican-led Berlin Initiative - co-sponsored by 12 anti-whaling European countries, plus Kenya, Brazil, the U.S., Australia and New Zealand. Its architect, Andrés Rozental, a former Deputy Foreign Minister...
...Jack Klugman, 61, who is preparing for a one-man show on L.B.J., can top that. The veteran actor, best known as TV's crime-busting medical examiner Quincy, quipped: "I wish my mother had lived to see me first a doctor, then President of the U.S." James Prideaux's Lyndon, which opens in Wilmington, Del., next week and moves to the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., the following week, tells L.B.J.'s life from his halcyon days in Texas to the years after his turbulent presidency. Klugman admits he developed an "intense interest" in the politician...
...JAMES PRIDEAUX...
...Henry Prideaux had bad luck in World War I. In his first cavalry charge, he was taken prisoner. Then, happily for him, Britain decided to send an expeditionary force to Russia in hopes of defeating the Bolsheviks. Prideaux promptly volunteered, led a brilliant cavalry attack on the Reds at Dan-koi, and emerged with the D.S.O., and speedy advance up the military list...
...World War II, Prideaux has within his grasp the command of the British Expeditionary Force in Europe should Hitler invade Poland. At this moment, a letter appears in a British magazine, suggesting that Prideaux had actually blundered at Dan-koi and, in fact, was not present when needed. Prideaux, naturally, sues for libel, whereupon the whole story is re-enacted for judge and reader...