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...were experts. Gathered together, along with nearly 100 economists, diplomats and businessmen for the Vail Foundation and American Enterprise Institute's second annual World Forum in Vail, Colo., were former President Gerald Ford, 70, an Institute Fellow; Helmut Schmidt, 64, Chancellor of West Germany from 1974 to 1982; Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, 57, President of France from 1974 to 1981; James Callaghan, 71, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1976 to 1979; and Malcolm Fraser, 53, who was defeated as Prime Minister of Australia in March after eight years in office. During their three-day stay...
...Socialists have usually opposed military interventions in Africa, and they now find it awkward to have changed their position. French rightists also find themselves in a paradoxical position, reluctant to condemn an intervention that is in line with their own past policies. The three main opposition leaders, former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, former Premier Raymond Barre and Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac, have all kept silent on the subject. Yvon Blot, spokesman for the neo-Gaullist party, speculated that Mitterrand's "bizarre" outburst was meant mainly for home consumption, as a ploy to retain the support...
Reporter-Researcher Val Castronovo coordinated the efforts of the large research staff. Reporter-Researcher Rosemary Byrnes gathered and assessed material for the cover story. The editors were also substantively aided by two special consultants: Robert Christopher, former TIME senior editor and author of The Japanese Mind (1983), and Edwin Reischauer, U.S. Ambassador to Japan from 1961 to 1966 and a noted Asia scholar who wrote The Japanese...
...Japanese are searching for a deeper spiritual meaning to their lives, most are content with what they call chuto-hanpa (a bit of this, a bit of that) and scholars describe as juso shinko (multilayered faith). Blending aspects of different faiths has been the tradition in Japan since prime val Shinto, with its reverence for spirits in nature, began mingling with Buddhism and Confucianism. Both doctrines were imported from China via Korea 14 centuries...
...lurking violence. Three children taunt a woman said to be a hermaphrodite (Cecily Hobbs) and try to impale her on a hoe as if it were a pitchfork. A sadistic stepmother (Amelda Brown) torments her placidly submissive stepdaughter (Tricia Kelly) in order to "feel something." At one point, Val asks Frank: "What are you frightened of?" Frank replies: "Going mad. Heights. Beauty." Says Val: "Lucky we live in a flat country." Churchill interprets the flat country to be the death of the heart, and with the aid of an absolutely superb cast, she has composed a moving requiem...