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Back in the U.S., the happy but professionally restrained diplomats appeared one by one before a televised press conference at the State Department. In an oddly stiff ceremony, each gave name and title: Mark Lijek, 28, a consular officer; his wife Cora, 26, a consular secretary (both from Falls Church, Va.); Joseph D. Stafford, 29, a consular officer; his wife Kathleen, 28, a consular secretary (both from Crossville, Tenn.); Robert Anders, 54, a consulate officer (from Port Charlotte, Fla.); and Henry Lee Schatz, 31, an agricultural attache (from Post Falls, Idaho). Anders read a carefully prepared statement thanking reporters...
...Spanish Ambassador. "The terrorists sacrificed the hostages and immolated themselves afterward," read an official statement. The Ambassador vehemently denied the government account, saying that the police attacked his embassy "with extraordinary brutality," and that their behavior was "absolutely intolerable." In Madrid, the Spanish government handed the Guatemalan Ambassador a stiff note declaring that the police had acted "in violation of the most elementary norms of international law." In protest, Spain broke off diplomatic relations with Guatemala...
...other foreign leader speaking for the boycott was Canada's Prime Minister Joe Clark, but he faces a stiff reelection challenge from former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's Liberal Party, and Trudeau has been cool to a ban. Mexico has already announced its intention to field a squad in Moscow...
...libidinous or abusive producers, no hysterically egomaniac directors, not even a failed novelist making a rich, bitter livelihood by writing for the screen. The author has been a novelist (Hard Rain Falling, The True Life Story of Jody McKeegan); he has also been a movie and TV working stiff, and what he is offering here is an accurate, lightly ironic record of the laid-back camaraderie animating the movie business...
...room, or an extra private room in over-crowded years. The Jordans were designed to hold 25 people each, but either students were smaller then or had a lower standard of comfort: at least half of the "doubles" are used as singles, and the coops put up stiff resistance when the Quad housing offices try to assign any extra bodies to a Jordan...