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Lately there has been much grim news out of Great Britain. The highest unemployment figures (around 12%) since the Depression, all-out street fighting in the inner cities. Suddenly, within and without, everyone needed reminding: not only of past glories but of future possibilities. And what better reminder than a wedding-showmanship and statesmanship in high style? The whole country is invited; the world can look on. The monarchy is seen, resplendent, as what the British have long insisted that it has become: an extended, and exalted, surrogate family. "The royal scene is simply a presentation of ourselves behaving well...
...murders in Guatemala since Lucas García became President in 1978. No precise statistical breakdown is available, but most outside observers agree that the right is responsible for the overwhelming majority of the killings. Much of the violence is the work of government security units, which are waging an all-out campaign to crush the small but growing leftist guerrilla movement. In addition, paramilitary rightist groups like the Secret Anti-Communist Army (E.S.A.) appear to do their murderous work with the tacit cooperation of the government. Amnesty International traces the headquarters for most of the right's secret...
Yasser Arafat, chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, called the raids the opening round of an all-out "IsraeliPalestinian war." His soldiers seemed positively elated, as if the exchange of Israeli bombing raids over Lebanon and Palestinian rocket attacks on northern Israel signaled a new phase of the hostilities that the guerrillas had long been waiting...
...first days as Secretary of Defense, Caspar W. Weinberger, 63, arrived at his desk to find a report giving the reasons for a single budget item; it was 2,916 pages long. Weinberger hit the roof, to the extent that his easygoing temper can fly. He called for an all-out war on the stultifying proliferation of paper and procedures throughout the department. As a senior official put it, the bureaucratic problem of putting together a budget had become so imposing that "the numbers were driving the policy. We set out to reverse that." Thus did the new Secretary begin...
With this nomination, the Administration has effectively said, 'Goodbye, we don't need you.' " That was the angry complaint of Mrs. Connaught Marshner, head of the National Pro-Family Coalition, at a Washington press conference, where luminaries of the New Right launched an all-out attack on Ronald Reagan's first nominee to the Supreme Court. Armed with accusations against Sandra O'Connor's record in the Arizona state senate-some of them gleaned from records, others based on insinuation and surmise-the critics charged that she is soft on touchstone social problems like...