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EARLY THUNDER, by Jean Fritz (Coward-McCann; $4.50). A historical novel set in Salem, Mass., in 1775, about Daniel West, a 14-year-old torn between the Tory loyalties of his family and his own awakening devotion to independence...
...Butcher from his ground-floor brokerage desk, Seabrook from a pint-size office eight floors above. Butcher still swims daily in his suburban pool, plays tennis regularly. Seabrook, a model-railroad buff, raises horses and collects antique carriages (he has two dozen) at his 4,200 acre farm in Salem, N.J. He and his wife, former United Press Correspondent Liz Toomey (whom he met at Grace Kelly's wedding to Monaco's Prince Rainier), often slip into 18th century costume for champagne-sipping country outings amid the asparagus and spinach; in winter they like to take guests across...
...gold-plated fruit basket, Indira Gandhi a silver miniature of New Delhi's minaret, Kutb Minar. From Russia's President Nikolai Podgorny came a 31-ft. porcelain vase, from Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba a solid gold olive tree and from Kuwait's Emir Sabah as Salem as Sabah two black Arabian stallions. President Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines sent a packet of seeds of a new strain of rice that, if it finds the right soil, can increase yields tenfold. The gifts and the illustrious names of their senders were well suited to the occasion. Iran last...
Most active of the new pragmatists is Sheik Mohammed Ali Ja'abari, 60, the mayor of the ancient city of Hebron in the hills southwest of Jeru salem. A former Minister of Justice under Jordan's King Hussein, Ja'abari has spent the past two weeks trying to organize a conference of prominent Palestinians to determine just what form peace negotiations should take, and what they should lead to. His compatriots still disagree about whether to hold out for full independence, try to become part of Jordan again or accept Israeli citizenship in return for full local...
DOUGLAS S. DUNHAM Willamette University Salem, Oregon...