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...action (he won the tournament handily), at practice and at rest. She talked with his fiancée, Mariana Simionescu, a tennis star in her own right, his parents and his coach. She had lengthy sessions with Borg himself, including a round-trip plane ride between Paris and Rome. To travel in the orbit of a superstar, reports Phillips, "is to be envied. All the tennis fans on the plane-including the pilot -came around for autographs, and many of them looked at me as though their idea of dying and going to heaven was to sit and talk...
...sweeten the possibly bitter summit, Carter made a two-day stopover in Rome on the way to Venice and planned three days of sightseeing, fence mending and felicities afterward. The first stop: Yugoslavia, where he would try to make amends for his much criticized decision not to attend President Josip Broz Tito's funeral last month. Next: Spain and Portugal, as a way of celebrating their evolution from dictatorships to democracies...
...Rome the Italians welcomed Carter with an aerial tour of the city, taking him on a helicopter flight over the Appian Way, St. Peter's, the Forum. At times the helicopter flew at rooftop level. Soon after being greeted by President Sandro...
...world?as large and brooding as the land itself. The flat, stark lines of the Kremlin's forbidding and protective wall dominate Lenin's tomb and the glorious domes of St. Basil's Cathedral. The Soviet Union, an empire whose expanse dwarfs the one ruled by ancient Rome, now confronts a pivotal decade in its history. Before long, an entirely new generation of leaders must replace that of President Leonid Brezhnev and his aging associates on the Politburo. There is, meanwhile, growing tension between East and West, with the world's two superpowers increasingly seen to be in confrontation...
...Brigades. Sandalo's testimony, they hoped, might enable them to catch and indict a few of his revolutionary comrades. It had a vastly greater effect. It threatened to topple the center-left coalition of Christian Democratic Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, one of the most promising governments in Rome in many years. It transformed this week's regional and local elections from a ho-hum event into a hard-fought and hard-to-predict contest. And it seemed certain to give the powerful Communists a valuable opposition issue for some time to come...