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...King Juan Carlos' first official tour of Spain's volatile, autonomy-minded Basque country, and the reception was often only lukewarm, sometimes hostile. Security forces outnumbered the crowds nearly everywhere, and at most of their stops-from Vitoria to San Sebastian -the King and his wife, Queen Sofia, also had to endure the presence of angry Basque demonstrators, who were raising clenched-fist salutes and chanting anthems and slogans in their ancient language...
...King Constantine and strong-willed matriarch whose imperious demands and interventions in Greek politics sent mobs into Athens' streets and might have helped pave the way for the monarchy's overthrow in 1967; of heart failure after surgery; in Madrid, where she was visiting her daughter Queen Sofia of Spain...
Amid the thousands of delegates attending a Communist-sponsored peace conference in the Bulgarian capital of Sofia, Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasser Arafat stood engrossed in animated conversation with a group of three men and a woman. What was remarkable about the informal encounter was that Arafat was chatting with a delegation of four Israelis, two of whom were members of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament. So far as anyone could remember, it was the first time Arafat had ever met publicly with representatives of the Israeli political establishment...
...views of the four Israelis at the Sofia meeting have practically nothing to do with mainstream Israeli thinking. Many members of Prime Minister Menachem Begin's ruling Likud coalition were furious over the meeting, and one member, Deputy Minister Yoram Aridor, charged that a "grave felony" had taken place. Said one Israeli official: "When a Communist Party member who is loyal to Moscow meets with Arafat, it has no significance except for its public relations value to Arafat...
...Soviet Jews arriving last week on four flights of refugees let loose by Moscow's easing emigration policy. Said a young engineer from Kiev: "I tried so long to leave and wanted so much to come here. I can't believe it." Said Sofia Mineyeva, a young English teacher also from Kiev: "In the U.S., I expect all my dreams to come true. This is a free country...