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Next González executed an equally deft pass of the cape. As millions of Spaniards waited at their ra dios, González soberly proceeded to lay out his party's program of government. The shocker: it was hardly socialist at all. Using West Germany as his model, González explained his main thrusts: a mixed economy with little nationalization, a firm commitment to join the European Economic Community and greater personal freedom for all Spaniards. Groused Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo: "This is not a program of the left." He was correct. In one stroke, Gonz...
...Palestinian autonomy in the Tel Aviv suburb of Herzlia, U.S. Special Middle East Ambassador Sol Linowitz flew to Cairo late last week to commiserate with Anwar Sadat. The Egyptian President greeted his "good friend Sol" in an uncharacteristically morose mood. Later that evening came the reason, and the shocker: Sadat requested an indefinite postponement of the talks, which were supposed to produce an autonomy agreement...
...intimate dinner party at a country estate, followed by the shooting of the wealthy and well-known host-but there was no need for a Hercule Poirot to find the suspect. The police arrived in time to stop the sedan and arrest the driver. Her identity was a shocker: Jean Struven Harris, 56, the well-groomed headmistress of the prestigious Madeira School in suburban Washington, which for 74 years has educated the daughters of some of America's richest and most prominent families...
...Saudi shocker, and it could not have come at a more anxious moment. Four days before the 13 member nations of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries were to sit down in Caracas for their fourth price-raising session in a year, the cartel's biggest producer took preventive action. In a surprise announcement that whipped the money markets into a frenzy and sent gold leaping to yet another alltime high of $462 per oz., the desert kingdom of the House of Saud, long regarded as the quintessential OPEC moderate, announced one of the biggest increases in the cartel...
This is standard pornographic fare, but for the horrified spectators, most of them women, last week's show was a shocker. After they saw the slides, they headed into the street to inspect for themselves the district's lurid attractions that include hookers (male and female), porn shops, topless bars and X-rated movies...