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Three Harvard professors will help the government of Venezuela develop an experimental program to improve the quality of Venezuelan schools...
...quit Embassy Row along elegant Rachel Imenu Street, the normally poker-faced diplomats displayed unaccustomed emotion. Some cast professional discretion aside to express a special sense of loyalty to a city they had come to love. "Jerusalem is different from any other city I've ever seen," said Venezuelan Ambassador Luis La Corte. "Its air, its light, its physical presence make it a completely distinct town. I will miss it very much." With sad resignation, Panama's Marina Mayo, at 35 the youngest envoy and the only female, took a soldierly view. "You have to follow orders...
...There is nothing comparable to it in diplomatic history," said Venezuelan Delegate Andrés Aguilar, who recalled that delegates originally expected it would be a labor of a few months. But the complexities, and the delegations, grew. By last week there was a cast of thousands: 460 registered delegates from 156 participating countries and 24 nongovernmental organizations-the Sierra Club and the Friends of the Earth, for example-and back-up staff of 2,000. The result, said Canada's J. Alan Beesley, chairman of the drafting committee, is "the most significant achievement in international relations since...
...trouble struck. The value of Charter's real estate holdings plunged; the magazines stagnated; the company's Venezuelan oilfields were nationalized. Profits plummeted 86%. Mason halted his buying splurge, sold off some land, eventually closed such losers as WomenSports, a magazine launched by Tennis Star Billie Jean King and her husband, and merged American Home with Redbook. Out of that reorganization emerged the present Gaul-like structure of three parts...
...speeding bus. One of them, Dominican Ambassador Diogenes Mallol, praised Colombian President Julio César Turbay Ayala for handling "this problem with prudence and calm," adding that "only in the beginning were we in danger because the terrorists were very nervous. Then everything calmed down." Another, Venezuelan Ambassador Virgilio Lovera, jubilantly told reporters: "I feel like running a mile in the Olympics...