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News of last week's stunning breakthrough won near unanimous accolades for the man most responsible for pulling it off: Lord Carrington (see box). Paradoxically, no one greeted his accomplishment with more enthusiasm than the Rhodesian whites, whose privileges have been whittled away since the beginning of the Lancaster House talks. The prospect of peace, international recognition and an end to economic sanctions has turned all but a handful of Rhodesia's diehards into fans of Carrington's and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's. The Salisbury Parliament is scheduled to meet this week to vote...
What Carrington lacks in personal ambition is more than compensated for by the deep sense of noblesse oblige that has inspired his lifelong commitment to public service. Educated at Eton and Sandhurst, he won the Military Cross as an officer in the elite Grenadier Guards during World War II. An active member of the House of Lords since 1938, Carrington held government posts under Winston Churchill and Anthony Eden before being sent as High Commissioner to Australia in 1956. Three years later, he was named to the prestigious post of First Lord of the Admiralty. He served as Secretary...
...Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (Free Press, 1973). Anxiety over death, not over sex, Anthropologist Becker decided, is the prime trouble of mankind. An unconventionally religious book that won a Pulitzer Prize shortly after the author died of cancer...
Manfred Rommel, Stuttgart mayor and son of "Desert Fox" Erwin Rommel: "It's sad for the German people that they must admit it was better to lose in war than win. But we have to admit it. It would have been terrible had Hitler won...
...weeks ago, the Justice Department tried to compel Noraid to designate the Provisional wing of the I.R.A. as its "foreign principal." Noraid refused, and its attorney, former New York City Council President Paul O'Dwyer, insisted, "We won't be falsely labeled...