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...dialogue-notably West Germany's Genscher-balked at the plan. But Haig managed to persuade them to agree to a unified gesture of condemnation. The Soviet-initiated suspension of the conference thus played right into into American hands. Explained a Canadian delegate: "The whole thing was a fabulous stroke of luck. We came here disagreeing on key points. Now the Russians have made everybody so angry through their arbitrary tactics that [we] are all rallying behind Haig...
...Prentice Women's Hospital, in Chicago, twelve couples are learning a procedure called effleurage, part of the Lamaze method of "prepared" child delivery. Husbands stroke the swollen stomachs of their wives, who pant, groan and breathe deeply. The average age of the students: early 30s. Even the 35-year-old instructor is expecting her first child...
Qualifying was the order of the day, with the meet formal altered to create extra opportunities. With the opening 400 medley relay divided into separate 100 yard heats for each stroke. Julian Bott and Bob Hrabchak won and qualified in the back-stroke, with times of 55.32 and 55.47. Junior Jim Carbone churned in at 59.89 in the breaststroke to make Easterns standards, with Jack Gauthier and Mike Miao taking the butterfly...
...answer provided by Author Piers Paul Read, 40, sticks faithfully to the thriller formula: make a stroke of luck seem plausible and clever. Just when the officials need him most, up pops Simon Milson. He not only works for the Foreign Office, but he knew Ludley at school years earlier. Best of all, he has just received an unexpected invitation from Ludley's wife to visit them at their home, the Villa Golitsyn in Nice. After being briefed by a grateful supervisor, Milson eagerly sets out to trick his host into a confession...
DIED. Mikhail Suslov, 79, the Soviet Union's chief ideologue; after a stroke; in Moscow (see WORLD...