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...with Russia as well as Red China-not to mention Pakistan, India and Iran. There were bands, honor guards, a 19-gun salute, and a sit-down lunch for 140 in the Yellow Oval Room with green turtle soup, Florida red snapper and vanilla Jalalabad, named for the mountain resort that is the Afghans' Aspen. Afterward, during a half-hour talk with the President, Maiwandwal promised that Afghanistan would continue to press for democratic reforms. Johnson, in turn, agreed in principle to make some $40 million in economic aid available to the Kabul government in the next fiscal year...
...main point of the weekend was to pave the way for next week's hemisphere conference at the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este, which Johnson plans to attend along with 20 Latin heads of state. At the top of the agenda are talks on joint inter-American programs for developing the basic economies of the nations south of the Rio Grande and on creation of a Latin American common market...
...wildlife (deer, quail), a profusion of tropical fruit from papaya to pineapples, a golf course, and old plantations with such calypso names as "Slob," "Humbug" and "Jealousy." St. John remains mostly unsettled, its rugged terrain a protected national park; but for the wealthy it has the Rockefellers' exclusive resort at Cancel Bay, where two recent visitors were Lady Bird and Lynda Johnson...
...from being isolated, the Basque country has boomed into Spain's most dynamic industrial area and one of its most prosperous. San Sebastián (pop. 149,000) is the nation's summer capital and most fashionable resort, boasts the highest per capita spending rate in all of Spain. Bilbao (pop. 357,000) is a throbbing city of steel mills and shipyards, whose skies are darkened by factory smoke by day and glow with the fires of blast furnaces by night. It is also Spain's banking capital, the headquarters of two of Spain's five...
...Readers resort to Louis Auchincloss with much the same misgivings that sensible men feel when they resort to the law. A New York lawyer as well as an author, he has the distinction of inventing fictional clients who write their own verdict of guilty-"guilty with an explanation," as they say in day court. Moreover, their usual character witness-Auchincloss himself-is the kind who lets the cat out of the bag and the client into...