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Yesterday, a spokesman for the State Department announced that Kissinger has "severely and officially" reprimanded Alfred Atherton, assistant secretary of State for Middle and Far Eastern Affairs, for discussion classified memoranda of conversations compiled during the Middle East talks...
Lawrence Eagleburger, Under Secretary of State for Management, said Kissinger's letter of reprimand will be placed on Atherton's personnel file, and that a department official under Atherton, Harold Saunders, has also been reprimanded for reading classified memoranda to Sheehan at Atherton's direction...
According to Eagleburger's statement, furthermore, Atherton made the decision on his own as to what information he disclosed to Sheehan and how he disclosed it. Kissinger originally gave him only general approval to give Sheehan background briefings on the Middle East talks, Eagleburger said...
...answers; the supersalesman of sample cases that will not open; the victorious general of gum balls in his muskets. In order to succeed, one must dream of failure. This new off-Broadway play by John Guare (House of Blue Leaves) is about a desperate playwright named Bing Ringling (William Atherton). He is too busy writing flops to dream. The critical notices for his latest efforts are on the order of, "The next time we read this author's name it should be on the obituary page...
They are the cast of the too-too divine comedy that Ringling must wander through. Atherton hits the right note of hapless affability, but it is still only one note. All of the other roles are played by Ron Leibman and Anita Gillette, whose talents for mimicry and mime relieve a good deal of the script's bittersweet sentimentality and soft-core cynicism. Even evoked as burlesque, the brooding comic spirit of Dante is not suited to the underworld of show business, where the principal sin is usually self-delusion rather than pride...