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...official functions. Chicago Mayor Jane Byrne, for example, was invited to represent the President at Lord Mountbatten's funeral. Iowa Catholics have been put on the guest list for the White House reception for Pope John Paul II next month. Carter last week named two Hispanics to top posts: Edward Hidalgo as Secretary of the Navy and Abelardo Lopez Valdez as chief of protocol...
Kennedy is expected to be nearly unbeatable in the New Hampshire primary on Feb. 26 and the Massachusetts primary on March 4, so Carter aides are concentrating their efforts on the next big test, the Florida primary on March 11. Says a top Carter aide: "If Kennedy beats us there-and it's a damn sight easier to beat us there than elsewhere in the South -he's got the big ring to grab...
Manila's Malacanñ:ang Palace recalls an 18th century European royal court. At the top of a sweeping, crimson-carpeted-staircase, huge chandeliers dominate the great hall where Cabinet ministers, ambassadors and favor-seekers wait to be received in audience. Inside the President's book-lined office, rows of brown leather chairs lead to his desk, which stands on a raised platform flanked by Philippine flags. In a palace interview last week with TIME Correspondent Ross H. Munro, Marcos exuded confidence as he talked about the future of his regime and his country. Despite rumors that...
...squadron of South African Impala jets thundered through the skies over the new Independence Stadium in Thohoyandou, as tribal dancers raised clouds of red dust with their rhythmic exhortations to ancestral spirits. At the stroke of midnight, South Africa's top-hatted President Marais Viljoen strode down a red carpet to announce a "great historic event, the birth of a new state." At his side stood Chief Patrick Mphephu, 54, a small, diffident man with a fifth-grade education, who was soon to become the Executive President of the Republic of Venda, a Delaware-sized region tucked...
Little wonder, then, that San Francisco treated Pavarotti as the top attraction in La Gioconda, although the tenor role is not exactly the lead. Local hostesses vied for his exuberant presence at their parties. A dealer lent him a Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud for ins seven-week stay. Between socializing and vocalizing, Pavarotti jetted to Los Angeles for one of his periodic jousts with Johnny Carson on the Tonight show. When he had free time, he took to the tennis court. A surprisingly graceful Gargantua, he is quick on his feet and gets about as much English on the tennis...