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...month earlier. "The longer a cake matures, the more it relaxes," Avery says. "If we'd known last year that he was going to get married, we would have baked it last year." Avery hand-picked every cashew, cherry, walnut and currant for the cake in a two-day session code-named "Operation Sultana." He added a little Navy rum ("Just for flavor. You don't want people to get paralytic") and baked the largest layer for 8½ hours. The result, which was stashed behind a locked door at the Royal Navy Cookery School, measured...
...Israeli warplanes staged a strike on Palestinian guerrilla targets near the Zahrani River in southern Lebanon, killing three people and wounding 20. Two days later the Israelis struck again, this time hitting a guerrilla base at Damur, ten miles south of Beirut, killing five and injuring 25. After another two-day interval, the Israelis attacked once more, damaging Palestinian and Lebanese leftist bases near the southern town of Nabatiyeh and at Jazzin and Basir in south central Lebanon. Ten were killed and 90 wounded. In a dogfight between Syrian and Israeli jets, the first such encounter in five months...
...getting acquainted. Mitterrand is particularly eager to arrange a private tête-à-tête with Reagan, essentially to feel out whether a French Socialist can find some common ground with an American conservative. The leaders will have seven or eight hours to themselves during the two-day meeting, not counting formal sessions with their aides...
What was behind it was soon readily apparent. What lay ahead did not fit into the President's carefully crafted week's agenda at all. Reagan had been preparing for his most important foray into the diplomatic arena since taking office: a two-day meeting with Mexico's President José López Portillo in a vital effort to improve relations between the two neighbors. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was due to depart for China on his most significant venture abroad so far. And the Middle East shuttle diplomacy...
Though the oil ministers did much rhetorical waltzing during the two-day session, they were never able to break the deadlock that has for months gripped the cartel. Saudi Arabia has been pushing for pricing moderation against a group of price hard-liners led by Libya, Algeria, Iran and Iraq. Throughout the conference, Saudi Arabia's petroleum minister, Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, offered to raise the price of Saudi crude, now selling for as little as $32 per bbl., to perhaps $34. In return, the Saudi negotiator insisted that the price hawks cut their prices from...