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Although each side remained deeply suspicious of the other, the main action shifted for most of the week from the frigid waters around the disputed islands to secluded conference rooms in the United Nations Secretariat building in Manhattan. Even as they continued to spar with warships and planes, the combatants exchanged peace proposals through U.N. Secretary-General, Javier Pérez de Cuéllar. To be sure, the hopes for a diplomatic settlement were fragile. The greatest gulf between the disputants was still caused by the central issue: the ultimate disposition of the Falklands. But Argentina's Foreign...
...World Conference of Religious Workers for Saving the Sacred Gift of Life from Nuclear Catastrophe, sponsored by the Russian Orthodox Church, invited Graham, as well as some 600 other distinguished clergy from around the world. Even Pope John Paul II sent two observers from the Vatican's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity. Despite the impressive invitation list, Reagan Administration officials had urged Graham not to accept, insisting that the conference was a forum for endorsing Soviet foreign policy and a not so subtle public relations ploy designed to demonstrate religious tolerance in the U.S.S.R. Graham, they feared, would become...
...eyed colt with claustrophobia, the solitary member of the "20/20 Stable" (slogan: "Thine eye has seen the glory"). Cassaleria is another star-crossed son of Pretense, the father of poor Sham, who would have won any other Kentucky Derby and most other Preaknesses but finished second to Secretariat on both occasions in 1973. One of Cassaleria's first bobbling steps after birth tumbled him into a fence post and poked out his left eye, leaving a sorry-looking fleshed-over socket...
...people who are going to be boozing it up on the infield all afternoon. The hot tip from the Connecticut panhandle is that "all the good horses are hurt--everything's up in the air." Finally, for those who plan to place bets around Cambridge. Wayne Meisel says Secretariat has a good chance...
International Secretariat...