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...Prince and Princess were in the midst of their twelve-day trip to Australia, Charles was the center of a political brouhaha at home. Rod Hackney, an architect who advises Charles on community planning, had told the press that the Prince was deeply concerned about urban and racial unrest and did not want to succeed to the throne of a divided Britain. It came out that the Prince, who has recently been depicted as something of a royal layabout, has actually been making clandestine visits to the homeless of London and seeking advice on how to remedy inner-city decay...
...Federal Government, however, maintains that the Central American aliens are fleeing from economic want rather than persecution. Says Laura Dietrich, a State Department official: "Coming from a country with generalized conditions of poverty and civil unrest is not enough." Last year the U.S. granted asylum to 503 Salvadorans. In the same year agents apprehended 18,920 and deported 3,890, but thousands more remain while they complete the appeals process. By contrast, in the same year 45 Soviets were granted asylum and 43 were refused. Judge Earl Carroll, who is presiding at the Tucson trial, has already announced that...
...private interview with TIME Diplomatic Correspondent William Stewart. The car, along with the security vehicles that accompanied it, eventually came to a halt at a private club, where the discussion proceeded over dinner. Though his country remains deeply troubled, Amin Gemayel, 43, sounded unexpectedly optimistic, insisting that the recent unrest in Tripoli and Beirut is like "the last battle in a long war." Indeed, the major factions in Lebanon's ten-year civil war last week agreed to a Syrian-sponsored proposal to end the fighting. Gemayel endorsed the plan at week's end during talks in Damascus with Syrian...
...Echoing that feeling was Luis Rivas Leiva, secretary- general of the Social Democratic Party. Said he: "We are always evading restrictions. We have to use our imagination to evade these limits." Rivas discounts Ortega's claims that opposition activities are coordinated. Ortega may have dropped a lid on domestic unrest, but the move is not likely to help his attempts to win respect for the government abroad. This week he was to address the U.N. in Manhattan and possibly accept some invitations to speak around the U.S. The leader of the Sandinista revolution is likely to face...
...elaborate reflected the delicate nature of that mission. The Administration is known to be deeply concerned about the future of the Marcos regime, the corruption-ridden Philippine economy and the security of strategic U.S. facilities at Subic Bay and Clark Air Base. Morever, Marcos, 68, faces growing domestic unrest. A guerrilla insurgency is gathering strength in the countryside, threatening not only the current government but also U.S. military installations. Though Laxalt no doubt raised all those questions in his visit, Marcos later said "there were no definite proposals" from the U.S., and that he gave the Senator "all the facts...