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...time to move now seemed ripe. An International Red Cross visit had determined that all 50 hostages seized at the embassy were still being held in the compound. U.S. planners had learned that the number of militants guarding the captives had declined. Soon the protective darkness of the nights would shorten, and the desert temperatures would soar by day, making it even more difficult for the helicopters to operate in the hot, light air. The period for best operational conditions was narrowing fast. On Thursday, with the Common Market Foreign Ministers having just bowed to Carter's pleas for allied...
...Rome's Ambassador to London after 42 years in his country's foreign service. Indeed, seldom before in modern history has diplomacy been so dangerous, or so seemingly discredited, a calling. The clear and ugly danger is represented by terrorists who look on embassies and diplomatic missions as ripe, highly visible targets of opportunity, and their occupants as valuable hostages. At the same time, the traditional role of the diplomat, as an international negotiator, has been to some degree rendered obsolete in an age of Instant communications, when heads of state and foreign ministers personally conduct essential business, sometimes without...
...star is discovered, between acts, in his dressing room. He is wearing a Viking's helmet, complete with horns, over a wig of lank brown hair, a corset over a lace shirt. On his right hand there is a boxing glove. He claims, in the rich, ripe tones of yesteryear's provincial matinee idol, that he was about to do his imitation of Queen Victoria, but that he has forgotten what she looks like. The program's ever harassed star and manager, who just happens to be a very green, very agreeable frog, tells his guest that though he loves...
...House resident, he's "looking forward to taking two." He notes that the team is 6-2 at the IAB, and he believes that the fourth place Bruins (Friday night, 8 p.m. on WHRB, and Channel 25) and third place Elis (Saturday night at 8 p.m. on WHRB) stand ripe for upsets...
Director Lament Johnson's Paul's Case is also a tragedy ripe with '20s detail. Paul is a dreamy high school kid who yearns to escape wintry Pittsburgh for the Broadway high life he has read about in Sunday supplements. Once he achieves his goal-by stealing money-his ambitions are easily satisfied. He takes a suite at the Waldorf, buys clothes and eavesdrops on the swells. Unfortunately, he has no idea how to turn his briefly realized fantasy into a lasting reality...