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According to British sources, tough sanctions at this moment could jeopardize fragile talks that are now under way between the West Europeans and top Iranian officials. British Ambassador Sir John Graham last week was asked by Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr to try to delay a Common Market decision on sanctions in order to give Iran's so-called moderates more time to work for the hostages' release. The trouble with this is that Tehran has repeatedly won postponements of threatened U.S. retaliatory measures by claiming that Iranian moderates needed more time, but after each postponement, the moderates could...
Britain's Deputy Foreign Secretary Sir Ian Gilmour visited Cairo last week and later reported that the notion of a Western European initiative had been "very warmly received" by top Egyptian officials. Gilmour stressed that any Western European action would be "complementary to and not a replacement of the Camp David peace process. But he also noted that because the interests of Western Europe and the Middle East were so "deeply intertwined"-not least where oil supplies are concerned-the Europeans could not afford to allow the peace process to languish in limbo during an American election year...
Luke, with Artoo Detoo as his friend and companion, is the unpretentious cinematic heir to a long line of such heroes: Prometheus, Jason, Aeneas, Sir Galahad, John Bunyan's pilgrim. Luke begins his adventure and soon encounters Ben Kenobi, who, as such figures often do in traditional fairy tales and myths, offers advice and the benign protection of destiny. In classical myth such a role was played by Mercury, or Hermes as the Greeks called him; in Egyptian myth the part belonged to Thoth. After Ben is transported to that place where all good Jedi Knights go in Star...
Soviet dissident and writer Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, conductor Sir Georg Solti, novelist Gunter Grass and undersea explorer Jacques Cousteau are among past recipients of honorary degrees. Cronkite follows Rodney Dangerfield and Theodore H. White '38 as Class Day speaker...
Industry Secretary Sir Keith Joseph called MacGregor "the best man available in the world." His salary will be $109,000, like that of the man he will succeed, Sir Charles Villiers, also 67. That is a big cut for MacGregor, who has been making as much as $1.2 million annually. But under a complex series of payments, the investment banking firm will be reimbursed for losing MacGregor's services. It will receive $1.5 million when MacGregor takes over the company in July. If he does not finish his three-year appointment, up to $1 million will have...