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...animus aside, Haig and Kirkpatrick disagree frequently on substantive policy matters. Kirkpatrick, for example, threatened to resign last January after Haig refused to push for stronger sanctions by America's European allies following the military crackdown in Poland. In addition, critics claim, she has not been a particularly adept U.N. Ambassador. Yet, as the only woman in the Cabinet and as the most prominent neo-Conservative in the Administration, Kirkpatrick remains politically valuable. Unfortunately, the spat between her and Haig not only diminishes the effectiveness of both officials but raises substantial questions about the direction and intent...
...that may seem a large order for what is, after all, a small picture, but, as everyone remembers, the old Star Trek television series was adept at wrapping up even bigger issues in an hour. This film represents a reversion to that agreeably middlebrow mode rather than a continuation of the first Star Trek movie's overweening manner. This time no one is out to zap the teen market with an imitation Star Wars. The special effects, for example, are modest and traditional, mostly models bopping around star fields. There is an easy sureness about Nicholas Meyer...
...addition, Greenidge is adept at handling women's sports, even though RPI is only 25 percent female Before he had arrived, none of the four newspapers near RPI printed women's boxscores, now three of them...
Washington's position of neutrality in the Falklands issue reeks equally of error. The administration has become so accustomed to excusing the vicious Argentine injustices--so adept at defending Argentine's vicious "road to democracy"--that it finds itself unable to criticize the Falkland takeover. Britain may not be faultless in its reactions to the crisis. But if we had immediately condemned Argentina's actions, and vowed to support Britain at all costs, the military junta might now display a great deal more willingness to return the islands to their previous status and resolve the issues of sovereignty and administration...
...agent for twelve years, Livingston was especially adept at undercover work, frequently risking death. Says William Brown, his attorney and an old friend: "Anyone who lives the extremely stressful five years that Pat has lived will manifest the stress in some manner. The FBI has had no program to prepare agents for living a schizophrenic life...