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...Hanoi's game plan appeared to be twofold: to explain and justify its invasion of Cambodia and, in long-range terms, to loosen its bond to Moscow. The Vietnamese appreciate Soviet assistance, but they do not want a bear hug. Thus in the ASEAN capitals they were laying groundwork for negotiations on economic cooperation and establishing or expanding trade relations...
...diplomacy of the Middle East. It was scarcely a month ago that Sadat made his historic trip to Jerusalem. Last Wednesday, exactly 26 days later, Egyptian and Israeli delegates were sitting down together in a Cairo conference room, in the very shadow of the pyramids, to lay the groundwork for full-scale peace talks. At the very moment that the session was being called to order, Israeli Premier Menachem Begin was headed for Washington to meet with President Carter, a sudden summit conference arranged in a matter of hours at Begin's request. After two meetings with Carter...
DIED. General Charles Hartwell Bonesteel III, 68, commander in chief of the United Nations troops in Korea (1966-69); after a long illness; in Alexandria, Va. Bonesteel served as operational planner for the Normandy invasion under General Omar Bradley and after the war helped lay the groundwork for the Marshall Plan. Throughout the '60s and '70s he repeatedly called for expanded conventional-as opposed to nuclear-capabilities...
DIED. Ernst Bloch, 92, unorthodox Marxist philosopher with a sizable following among student radicals; of a heart attack; in Tubingen, West Germany. His master work, Das Prinzip Hoffnung (The Principle of Hope), completed during his prewar years in the U.S., laid the groundwork for Theologian Jũrgen Moltmann's "philosophy of hope." Bloch later taught at the University of Leipzig, East Germany, before defecting to the West in 1961 because he was "no longer willing to expose my work or myself to undignified conditions...
Died. John Robert Powers, 84, an aspiring actor who in 1923 founded the world's first modeling agency, laying the groundwork for what has become a billion-dollar industry; after a lengthy illness; in Glendale, Calif. He made millions from a stable of beauties that included such future stars as Barbara Stanwyck and Lauren Bacall...