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...motion for a parliamentary inquiry into the government's handling of the Westland affair was subsequently defeated by a vote of 370 to 217. Later in the week, Westland's board failed to muster the 75% shareholder approval needed to accept the Sikorsky bid. The biggest loser in the whole affair was clearly Thatcher: a Gallup poll published last week gave her Conservative Party only a 29.5% approval rating, its poorest standing since...
...their penchant for scandal. For example, there was J. Seward Jr.'s messy 1965 divorce, before which his wife had shot a private detective sent to monitor her extramarital trysts, not to mention the mishaps of Daughter Mary Lea, who once charged that her second husband had a homosexual affair with their chauffeur and plotted her murder. Then there were publicized allegations about a grandson injecting the family dog with heroin, and his brother planning to blow up a police station...
...nightmare: a hostile subject who undermines the project. The breakup with Nurse Vicki reveals that chilling instant when involved parties realize they have little in common. The sad truth about one's limits of interest and sympathy unfolds when a man Bascombe hardly knows insists on confessing his homosexual affair...
...case of Captain Alfred Dreyfus, accused of treason against the state. His trial, exile to Devil's Island and exoneration have been retailed in countless volumes and films; the most celebrated, The Life of Emile Zola, won an Academy Award for best picture in 1937. But The Affair manages to invest the drama with renewed pity and urgency. French Professor Jean-Denis Bredin is not content with a toneless recapitulation; the dark background is carefully illuminated, and the major characters and walk-ons are given full dimension, including, at times, the homosexual flirtations of spies and Dreyfus' adventures with...
Coming just eleven days before the May 4 presidential election, Kirchschläger's cautious assessment did little to clarify matters for the 20% of Austrian voters who, according to private polls, are still undecided about the Waldheim affair. Both Waldheim, the standard-bearer of the conservative People's Party, and Socialist Candidate Kurt Steyrer, a onetime Health Minister, insist that the former U.N. chiefs wartime record should not be an election issue. In fact, the controversy has rallied support for Waldheim. Before the March disclosures that he had misrepresented his wartime service, most polls showed him trailing Steyrer...