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Wherever the couple sets up house, Britons will be waiting to see if young Mark can bridle some of his bride's temperament. Though Anne can charm, she can also chafe. As one British court-watcher puts it: "She has imperious moods when that pendulous Windsor lower lip droops and the arrogance of centuries emerges." She has never enjoyed performing royal duties as much as her elder brother Prince Charles (who remains the world's most eligible royal single). She makes little attempt to disguise boredom. "I'm an expert on opening Kleenex factories and such...
...ratify a new constitution merging the two nations-a project conceived by Gaddafi and essential to his dreams of leadership. The linking is a calculated risk for him. Unless his notoriously dour and apathetic people can be mobilized and motivated, contends a Moslem writer who is a longtime Gaddafi watcher, "Egyptian bureaucrats will move in like a plague of locusts and overwhelm Libya. That is why he launched the People's Revolution. It is essentially a defensive operation aimed at helping Libyans hold their own with Egyptians after the union...
...watcher who cannot bear to wait another 100 years, a dozen groups are offering tours to the best spots from which to observe a total eclipse of the sun in June; there will not be a longer blackout until 2150. One airline will fly 250 customers to Kenya's Lake Rudolf, where they will stay in a special safari camp complete with guides, hunters, scientists and lectures on astronomy. A Boston group will fly from New York City to Casablanca, board the S.S. Masalia for a cruise along the path of the eclipse in the South Atlantic and hear...
Something of the same double vision plagues the French. Says Revel, France's best-known America watcher: "The French are, of course, ignorant of American society in any case. They live a continual ambiguity. On the one hand, they are unconsciously seduced and fascinated by American life, and they love to imitate it. On the other hand, it is almost a national custom to reject U.S. actions and disparage American institutions out of hand...
...achievement of a negotiated settlement in the Viet Nam War is a personal triumph for Henry Kissinger, the most brilliant and fascinating figure in the Nixon Administration. An avid Kissinger watcher ever since their days at Harvard, TIME Diplomatic Editor Jerrold Schecter offers the following assessment...