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...threatened to sit out his race, possibly tipping it to his white primary opponent. In Mississippi, a new tier of black party leaders who were active on Jackson's behalf has criticized the former Vice President for continuing to deal only with Mondale supporters. Charged Greenville Attorney Charles Victor McTeer: "Mr. Mondale has been slow to recognize the new black leadership in the South...
Since Shultz's visit, the U.S. representative at the talks has been Ambassador Harry Shlaudeman, a highly regarded career diplomat. Shlaudeman has held four meetings with his opposite number, Nicaraguan Deputy Foreign Minister Victor Hugo Tinoco: three in Manzanillo and a fourth at a motel on the outskirts of Atlanta. As a sign of good faith, both sides have remained determinedly close-mouthed about the discussions. U.S. diplomats in Washington, however, have revealed that only two of the meetings were spent on minor procedural issues. Says a U.S. official: "There has been no grandstanding or stalling. The talks moved...
...Nile, and Evil Under the Sun), and jumped at the chance to work with Lean. On the set he was free to wander, plucking shots of the 235 crew members and a cast that includes Dame Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Judy (My Brilliant Career) Davis, Indian Actor Victor Banerjee and, of course, Sir Alec Guinness. Guinness's career has been entwined with Lean's since the 1940s, when he was featured in the director's memorable adaptations of Dickens' Great Expectations and Oliver Twist. "Alec is a great man," is Snowdon's simple judgment...
...Christopher Cerf and Victor Navasky; Pantheon; 352 pages...
...look it up. For those who still accept without question the hokum that too often issues from the mouths of eminent personages, Christopher Cerf, co-conspirator in such truly dangerous works of spoofery as Not the New York Times (1978), together with Victor Navasky, editor of that sobersided weekly, The Nation, has collected more than 2,000 of these gems of misplaced certitude. "We can say with some confidence," they say with supreme confidence, "that the experts are wrong without regard to race, creed, color, sex, discipline, specialty, country, culture or century...