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...trade with South Africa, significantly loosening the controls imposed by former President Jimmy Carter four years ago. At about the same time, the federal government's most recent envoy to the apartheid-ruled nation cautioned U.S. officials to avoid making statements that could anger the ruling Botha regime. Those twin developments make it all the more imperative that other U.S. institutions from Congress on down to corporations and universities act vigorously to reprove South Africa for its repressive and discriminatory system...
...exhausting company. Seeing him through a child's eyes helps. Charlie does not look on his father as an itinerant handyman. "He's a genius," he assures strangers. And indeed, Allie does more than talk. On a whim, he bundles his wife, Charlie, a younger son and twin daughters off the Massachusetts farm he has been working and takes them to Honduras. He explains: "I once ate a banana from Honduras. That tasted mighty good, so I figured why not migrate...
...there were mixed reports on the Shah. He was characterized as weak and isolated, his advisers as venal and immoral. Claimed one 1976 CIA report: "In the Shah's family are an assortment of licentious and financially corrupt relatives, notably his twin sister Ashraf, a lady possessed of a greedy nature and nymphomaniac tendencies...
...architects, Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo & Associates, designed nearly an acre of elegant, muted space with such tact that the architecture never overwhelms or interferes with what it displays. Its climax is a slope-walled glass house-a twin to the gallery that houses the Egyptian Temple of Dendur on the other side of the museum-that contains the largest of the wooden figures. Enormous trouble was taken to safeguard the perishable organic materials of tribal art, the hair and wicker and wood and feathers, against the vagaries of New York's climate. Between them, the building and installation cost...
BORN. To Alexander Karageorgevitch, 36, Washington, D.C., insurance executive and son of the late King Peter II, last monarch of Yugoslavia, and Maria da Gloria, 35, great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, Brazil's last Emperor: twin sons, their second and third children; in Falls Church, Va. Names: Philip and Alexander...