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...lobbied vigorously against the resolution. The chief British complaint: the measure did not mention that the principle of self-determination would have to be respected for the 1,800 Falkland Islanders, a point that London considers "paramount" in settling the dispute. Said Britain's Ambassador to the U.N. Sir John Thomson: "Britain can look after herself, but she has an obligation to look after the Falkland Islanders as well." Prior to the vote, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher sent messages to President Reagan, indicating in no uncertain terms that she considered the U.S. stand a betrayal of Britain. Later...
Participants, who will give lectures on Jackobson work include MIT President Paul E. Gray. Calvert Walkins, Harvard Professor of Linguistics and the Classics international poet. Octavio Paz; and Sir Edmund Leach an anthropological from Cambridge University in England...
...Kennedy's ten favorite books, eight were history and biography. He devoured the 407-page Sir Robert Walpole: The Making of a Statesman in one evening. Eyeing China, J.F.K. called for two of Mao's books. Seeking insights into world trouble spots, he dug into Che Guevara's accounts of guerrilla...
After that, De Lorean began losing his credibility, if not his cool. In an effort to get his plant back from the hands of British receivers, he appears to have invented investors he said were poised for the rescue. Sir Kenneth Cork, one of the two British receivers, said last week, "They were always shadowy people whose names we never learnt. There would be a telex saying businessmen would put up so much, but always on the condition they were not named. They never emerged into daylight...
Bess Truman, who died last week at 97, went to Washington a Mid-western housewife who had lived all her life under the same roof with her mother. She did not smoke or drink or swear. She liked Charles Dickens and Sir Walter Scott but thought modern novels "a waste of time." After her husband succeeded Franklin D. Roosevelt in the White House, Bess burned a stack of Harry's love letters. "But think of history," Harry protested. "I have," she said...