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...Carter lead over Kennedy covers all parts of the country. In Kennedy's previous stronghold, the Northeast, Carter leads 47 to 39. In the West, where Carter failed to carry a single state against Gerald Ford in 1976 and where Kennedy has been strong, Carter is ahead 49 to 35. At the same time, Jerry Brown has virtually been pushed off the board as a serious presidential candidate. Carter leads him 71 to 16 nation wide...
...fruit of 15 weeks of painstaking negotiations at the stately Lancaster House in London, the accord carried with it the Front's previous acceptance of a majority-rule constitution and parliamentary elections. It thus appeared to pave the way for the peaceful creation of an independent republic of Zimbabwe by early next spring, as the British plan envisages. More immediately, it called for all combatants to lay down their arms within two weeks and for thousands of exiled guerrillas to return to Rhodesia, outlaws no longer. Declared a smiling Nkomo with some emotion: "We are going home...
...ultimate company man might agree. But behind homicide Smiley detects the ruthless spirit of Karla, his longtime adversary in Moscow. Publicly accepting the injunction of superiors, Smiley decides to do a little freelance investigation. On the scent from London to Germany he encounters a brilliant cast of characters from previous enterprises: Connie, the sapphic Soviet expert whom the Circus has dubbed Mother Russia; Oliver Lacon, the icy intelligence chief whose marital distress parallels Smiley's; the estranged Ann, still Mrs. Smi ley, and still destructive; and, ultimately, Karla himself...
...what the detective is up to when he examines those cigarettes and whom he sees in that faded snapshot - questions resolved at the proper theatrical instants. Moreover, Karla, in a pivotal chapter, turns out not to be inhuman after all; he has, in fact, Victorian sentiments, although in all previous appearances, he has been nothing but an arachnid...
...this pothole in its plot because of its cushion of intelligence and moral fastidiousness. Author Read is best known in the U.S. as the author of Alive, a nonfiction account of how some Uruguayan survivors of a plane crash in the Andes resorted to cannibalism to survive; his six previous novels, far less sensational, deserve more readers than they have received, and his latest may be his best. No one now writing has achieved quite the same equipoise between malaise and morality, ideas and emotions. In this tale of human imperfectibility, the devil gets his due and not a scintilla...