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...anti-Shah Iranians and the American Ambassador in Afghanistan was killed by terrorists, Defense Secretary Harold Brown was touring the West Bank of the Jordan River. His helicopter landed at an Israeli army post, and Brown went to a phone to talk with his deputy secretary in Washington. As soon as Brown finished his conversation, someone asked him if he intended to cut his trip short and return immediately to the Pentagon. "No," he said flatly. "Charles Duncan is there." Last week that trusted deputy was named to a higher post: Secretary of Energy, succeeding James Schlesinger...
...factor may be that Jordan has been under a good deal of personal pressure. Soon after he went to Washington, his marriage of eight years began to dissolve. He is now divorced. Last year, his father died...
...Managua's Intercontinental Hotel grew increasingly panicky. Finally, they were called into a post-midnight session. They unanimously accepted Somoza's resignation and conferred the blue-and-white sash, symbolic of the presidency, on his longtime flunky, former Health Minister Francisco Urcuyo Maliaño. As soon as the session adjourned, most of the lawmakers lit out for the airport or to the foreign embassies that had offered them asylum. They carried away everything they could. One politician was seen struggling with three automobile tires that he had kept hidden in his room...
...leader whose cause they had supported for so long, the national guard began to disintegrate. In a matter of hours, every one of Somoza's pilots, who had mercilessly bombed and strafed the barrios where the Sandinistas had their greatest support, had defected to neighboring countries. Soon Urcuyo flew to Guatemala and asked for asylum...
Malaysia and Thailand were surprisingly subdued in their criticism of Viet Nam, though as the principal countries of "first asylum," they have already absorbed more than half of the 380,000 refugees now scattered throughout Southeast Asia. But U.S. diplomats estimate that at least 1 million more people may soon be joining the exodus, principally from Viet Nam. That massive an outpouring would completely swamp the already overtaxed resources of the two countries. It was Thailand's forced repatriation of refugees from Cambodia last month and Malaysia's refusal to accept any more boat people that prompted...