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...understandably last year after his latest heart attack.) What tends to happen on location with Sellers is that the star grows increasingly insecure as filming approaches and during the early days of the shoot. Then, if he does not find his character, or if he senses a lack of support???and he requires monumental amounts of ego boosting?writers, directors, even fellow players find themselves getting fired or, at the least, undergoing very heavy weather. One could fill pages with damaging quotes from people who fell out with Sellers on one picture or another...
...effort to "boost the momentum for peace," Sadat set out last week on what was planned as a ten-day, eight-nation journey in search of support???diplomatic, military and moral. "A heavy and difficult job lies ahead," he said. His main destination, of course, after a brief stopover in Morocco, was Washington. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance was on hand, along with the red-uniformed Marine Band, to welcome the Egyptian leader to Andrews Air Force Base late Friday afternoon. Sadat, accompanied by his elegant wife, Jihan, his 21-year-old son, Gamal, and two of his six daughters...
...International Labor Organization, a vestige of the same Treaty of Versailles that set up the League, may die for similar reasons. By the end of this week, the Carter Administration will have to decide whether to keep the U.S. in the I.L.O. or withdraw its heavy support???currently a fourth of the 135-member organization's $80 million annual budget. If the U.S. does withdraw, it would be a severe blow to the Geneva-based I.L.O. and mark the first time that the U.S. has pulled out of any international organization...
Buckley the candidate softly rakes "the voices of doubt and despair," claims to rap with the Silent Majority, curries the hardhat vote and?essential to his Nixon-Agnew support???promises to vote with Republicans in organizing the Senate...
...touchiest parts of the plan involved Cambodia's neutral status. The Lon Nol government, though plainly pro-Western, is determined to preserve at least the facade of neutrality. Moreover, it hopes to win diplomatic support???and arms aid?later this month at a conference of Asian nations called to discuss Cambodia by Indonesia. To avoid weakening the shaky regime, the U.S. decided to forgo the legality of wangling an invitation from Phnom-Penh to attack the Communist bases in Cambodia. The omission meant that Washington was openly violating the Geneva accord of 1954 (which it did not sign...