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DIED. Adam Malik. 67, eloquent, energetic Indonesian Foreign Minister from 1966 to 1977 and Vice President from 1978 to 1983, a founding father of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and one of the region's most respected statesmen; of cancer; in Bandung, Indonesia...
...being deprived of adequate care in the Soviet Union. His request denied, Sakharov on May 2 began a hunger strike that made news around the world. Soviet officials then accused Bonner of conspiring with U.S. diplomats to conduct an anti-Soviet campaign in the West. Meanwhile, Western statesmen, including President Reagan, persistently expressed concern about Sakharov's condition. Rumors that Sakharov was dangerously ill, and even dead, kept the story in the headlines...
...hard line in U.S.-Soviet relations, Moscow Bureau Chief Erik Amfitheatrof studied the record of the past and consulted dozens of Soviet and Western sources. He also drew on his on-the-scene experience of watching Gromyko at numerous Kremlin functions, including the receptions for foreign statesmen that followed the funerals of Leonid Brezhnev and Yuri Andropov. On those occasions, he reports, Gromyko lingered longer with East bloc allies and exchanged only perfunctory greetings with Western leaders. "The exception," Amfitheatrof notes, "was Britain's Margaret Thatcher, who seemed able to charm the grim-faced Foreign Minister...
From the distant and almost unchallengeable position of one of the elder statesmen of Motown. Gaye did not yield to the glitter favored by his flashier colleague Diana Ross. Instead, he kept a strain of witty criticism in his early seventies recordings. While Ross was yielding to the strain of music that can most accurately be called "disco," Gaye recorded songs like "Troubled Man," that commented on the loneliness of the early and mid-seventies even as he encouraged libidinal freedom with songs like "Let's Get it On" and "I Want You." It was this unique mixture of incisive...
...opold Sédar Senghor, 77, the former President of Senegal (1960-80), is a poet, a philosopher and one of Africa's most respected elder statesmen. He is among the few Africans ever nominated for a Nobel Prize, and last year was elected to the prestigious French Academy for his contributions to politics and literature. Senghor is also a member of an even more exclusive group: he is one of three African leaders who have relinquished power voluntarily.* In an interview with TIME Correspondent John Borrell in Dakar, he discussed Africa's past...