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...rejected. Why it did so can be explained in only one way: the President and his aides never fully realized what a jam they were getting into until it was almost too late to pull out. That, in turn, points to serious flaws in the Administration's foreign policymaking apparatus, which have persisted throughout its nine months in office, in part perhaps because Reagan directed the initial energies and attentions of his Administration to be devoted to the U.S. economy...
...apparatus was simply a slide show for the anesthetized monkeys. The knowledge of which cells would send out electrical impulses in response to--or "recognition" of--which visual patterns could offer a map of the architecture of the visual cortex...
...Theater of Empathy. While well-acted, this production of Threepenny Opera lacks a social awareness of the play's context intrinsic to the epic theater. As if fearing to offend an audience too used to pleasurable theater and unwilling to be taught, Cutler has dismantled most of the instructive apparatus of Brecht's theater. But for the second Threepenny Finale, the placards bearing song and scene titles--the visual, literal representation necessary for didacticism--are wanting. While the narrator (Lars-Gunnar Wigemar), a ballad-singer, stalks about the stage describing subsequent scenes, this is not enough. He simply reduces...
...abrupt loss of an influential friend like Sadat in an all-important region of the world would be a severe blow for any Administration. In Reagan's Washington, it opens a time of testing for a foreign policy apparatus that is still in the formative stage. -By George J. Church. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett and Gregory H. Wierzynski/'Washington
...small underground journals that had blossomed during the movement's headier days. Though the journals were crudely mimeographed publications with readerships of at most a few hundred each, they were formally banned by the Party Central Committee in February. "The conservatives in the military and in the security apparatus just couldn't stand the underground papers," says one diplomat who is based in Peking. "They were determined to eradicate the dissident movement once and for all and, in this, they have been pretty successful...