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...indicated that he had been assured that a Reagan Administration would be "prepared to negotiate to push back the specter of nuclear war, to reduce arms and to establish rules of international conduct on the basis of strict reciprocity and principle." Kissinger also warned that the U.S. must not abandon the Third World. Said he: "We have many true friends in the developing world ... They wait for our leadership; they require our protection...
...presumably because if Reagan gets elected, the trains will run on time. But for the GOP to have such a united convention last week, there must have been a unifying factor, one thing that caused ultra-conservatives like Jesse Helms and moderates like George Bush and Henry Kissinger to abandon their "principles." That factor was the person of Ronald Reagan, a sincere, likeable, even comforting figure. Wherever he appeared, he conveyed a personal air of respectability and pleasantness...
When small problems in agriculture or industry fester into large ones, the Soviet bureaucracy revs up huge counterattacks that become economic overkill. Whenever Soviet grain harvests exceed expectations, for example, officials scour the countryside commandeering manpower and trucks from projects that they have to temporarily abandon...
...village this summer. And the mountain folk of Oberammergau are unlikely soon to give up their Passion. Says a Roman soldier in the cast: "We have acted in this play as children. We have sung in the choir and lived with the text all our lives. We shall not abandon it because some people in New York and fancy art critics think Rosner is better. This is our play. They can't take it away from...
...characters who didn't abandon all virtues of character for a happy ending. Segal's subject--an unexpected child, whosever it is--could make for a good serious novel, one in which family conflict lasted longer than 24 hours. But Segal's real story is still love and his quest still money. He well knows that empty love sells better than profound tragedy. He's already working on another novel. What...