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...women were surprisingly successful in gaining admittance to high officials-so successful, in fact, that they were assumed to have had secret Administration help. But they insisted that they had made all their appointments on their own. Their first stop was the Elysée Palace, where French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing kept a delegation of mayors waiting for almost an hour while he talked with the women and offered them "the profound sympathy and solidarity of France." According to the leader of the group, Louisa Kennedy of Washington, D.C., wife of the economic and commercial...
...first visit to a Western capital since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, even before the U.S. misadventure in Iran, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was not at all in a conciliatory mood. Flying into Paris for two days of talks with French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, Gromyko brushed aside the European Community's standing proposal for the neutralization of Afghanistan. He spurned a specific French request to spell out a timetable for Soviet withdrawal. Overall, he made it bluntly clear that Moscow does not consider its continued occupation to be any of Western Europe...
...strains persist between Thatcher and her European counterparts, particularly French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. A little more subtlety might have served her better, but subtlety is not a Thatcher trait. "She recognizes that she is not one of nature's negotiators," says an adviser. Her forte is the daring act. After Lord Mountbatten's assassination last August, for example, she rejected the advice of some cautious Cabinet ministers and visited British troops in the heart of I.R.A. terrorist country in Northern Ireland. Pictures of a windblown Maggie in an oversized flak jacket were visual...
...Coach Val Belmonte called the match "embarassing," but he did not blame the results on any particular factor. "We just didn't play good golf," he said. "The kids didn't shoot the games they normally shoot and were really disappointed...
...Seeve has been really coming around strong," coach Val Belmonte said after the match. April is a very busy month for students, Belmonte said, adding that schoolwork makes it hard for the golfers to concentrate on their games...