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...spite of the diplomatic debacle, Mitterrand appeared unruffled at a meeting at the Elysee Palace with West German Chancellor Kohl to discuss Kohl's trip to the U.S. and the entry of Spain and Portugal into the European Community. Asked about the presence of his name on Gaddafi's assassination list, Mitterrand said with an impatient smile, "If some thing happens, we will let you know." Said Kohl: "We will wait to see the developments [of the Egyptian inquiry], and we remain calm." One French official, referring to the arrest of the Libyan assassination team, down-played...
...seemed a simple enough stunt, so simple that Actress Kate Nelligan, 33, was determined to run the explosive course herself. On location in Spain, the actress was playing the title role in Eleni, the film of Nicholas Gage's book about his Greek mother (she was executed in 1948 by Communist rebels who had occupied her village after World War II). In the scene simulating an artillery attack by government forces, Nelligan "decided to liven it up with some clever falls I devised for myself, including somersaults when the mines and bullets were near misses." By the time...
Following by air from Spain the approximate route that Explorer Christopher Columbus sailed almost half a millennium ago, Pope John Paul II last week traveled to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. His mission: to launch eight years of "spiritual preparations" to commemorate the Christianization of the Americas that began with Columbus' first voyage to the New World in 1492. The Pontiff used the occasion to issue a thinly veiled denunciation of U.S. and Soviet bloc intrusion in Caribbean and Latin American affairs. He urged listeners to resist "interferences of foreign powers which follow their own economic bloc...
...long after coming down from Oxford. Using BBC typewriter and paper, the young Naipaul wrote: "Every morning when he got up Hat would sit on the banister of his back verandah and shout across, 'What happening there, Bogart?' " This small scene came from Trinidad and Port of Spain and the crowded, colorful street where Naipaul spent part of his childhood. In later years, with an established and growing reputation, Naipaul returned several times to Trinidad and environs. He looked up Bogart, the man who had inspired his first successful fiction, but his travels home chiefly brought...
Shot on location in Spain by Italian Director Francesco Rosi and adapted by Rosi and Tonino Guerra, the film boasts some striking images: cigarette girls hike their skirts while suggestively rolling tobacco on their thighs, and smugglers carouse in taverns of dubious salubrity...