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Were the Polish people reassured? On the contrary, they were in shock and mourning. The queues at food shops, a familiar sight in contemporary Poland, had resumed. But the shoppers, their cheeks red from the deep cold (5?? F in many places), were sullen. In the countryside, the only visible evidence of the nation's changed circumstances was the snow-muffled rumble of tanks and military trucks along the roads. But inside their houses, people were praying?and cursing. "I have lived through two wars," said a farmer north of Warsaw, "and now I am on my third. Just...
...also promised to hold down Government spending, partly by cutting 20,000 workers from federal payrolls through attrition; to keep a 5??% limit on pay raises for federal employees; and to permit no pay increase at all this year for Government executives. Carter noted that he had already used his veto to stop inflationary spending proposed by Congress and would not hesitate to do so again. "We must face a time of national austerity," he said. "Hard choices are necessary if we want to avoid consequences that are even worse...
SUNDAY, SEPT. 10. After Carter, Sadat and Begin tour Gettysburg battlefield in morning, Americans unfold proposals in marathon 5??-hour session with Israelis. Mood is more conciliatory because Begin is now responding to suggestions from Carter rather than from Sadat. But Begin still criticizes many points in great detail, then grows visibly tired after midnight. Carter patiently defends U.S. compromises, keeps the meeting moving. "Carter was incredible," Weizman says. "He never lost control of the meeting for a minute." Outside, says one official, the long Israeli-American meeting makes the Egyptians "nervous as hell." A few of them...
Director Herbert Wise (I, Claudius) is keenly sensitive to the nuances of the writing; there isn't a broad moment in the entire 5?? hours. The cast could not be better. Richard Briers is particularly dexterous as a foolish, henpecked husband whose chummy manner does not entirely hide a disappointed heart. So is Penelope Wilton as the spinsterish sister who is most touchingly desperate for affection...
...base of the chimney, the workers found a tunnel, which they followed to a nearby Soviet apartment building. They caught a brief glimpse of a fleeing Russian, who had been monitoring listening equipment, then realized that they were on Soviet soil T?or, rather, beneath Soviet soil 5???and retreated. Administration officials called the incident "particularly nasty." Secretary of State Cyrus Vance protested personally to Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko. Incredibly, Gromyko responded by complaining haughtily that the American workers had cut a Soviet cable?the one that connected the eavesdropping devices with the monitoring equipment...