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...stand in the way of a settlement with Nicaragua, should one become possible, and American aid to their cause should not extend to such stupidities as mining Nicaraguan ports. But the contras are fighting for an ideal, and the U.S., after arming, training and encouraging them, cannot suddenly abandon them to their fates...
Suppose the Sandinistas do buckle under contra pressure and agree to leave El Salvador alone? That would not satisfy the contras; their aim is very openly to destroy the Sandinista regime. If the U.S. remained true to its avowed purpose, it would have to abandon the contra bands it had trained, armed and encouraged. Alternatively, it would have to negotiate some kind of amnesty under which the contras could lay down their arms...
...decision to abandon SelectaVision comes just as disc-player sales seemed to switch into fast-forward. After producing some 250,000 SelectaVision sets last year, the company was selling them during the past month at the rate of 400,000 a year. Company executives, though, figured that they would need to produce three or four times that many to make a sufficient profit. Only about 12,000 SelectaVisions remain in stock at RCA's Bloomington, Ind., plant, but wholesalers and dealers have about 150,000 left...
Wall Street analysts generally applauded RCA's decision to abandon its onetime pet project. Said Smith Barney's Russell Leavitt: "The disc players were using up too much of the company's resources." RCA can take consolation in the fact that it hedged its bet on SelectaVision. The company is the biggest U.S. marketer of its disc player's chief nemesis, the VCR. RCA is expected to sell 1.5 million cassette machines this year, up about 100% from 1983. -By Stephen Koepp. Reported by Lawrence Mondi/New York
...conservative embroidery on a disdainfully erotic vision. Balthus's quintessential (and least seen) painting of that sort, The Guitar Lesson, is not in the show. But others, hardly less remarkable, are. Among them is The Room, 1952-54, whose teen-age girl sprawls in a posture of utter abandon, like a sunbather but in a dark room, while a malicious-looking dwarf yanks back the curtain to flood her body with light...