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...canines turns tail-wagging family pooches into snarling guard dogs. In Los Angeles, uniformed attendants at a bunker-like command post study screens and consoles day and night, watching for signs of home break-ins. When an alarm goes off, they lift a red telephone to summon police, or bark out a microphone command that dispatches members of their own gun-toting security force...
...inclination in Washington has been to downplay both halves of the Soviet ultimatum. According to this attitude, the U.S.S.R.'s military countermeasures will turn out to be more political bark than military bite. As for a Soviet walkout in Geneva, that would be crazy, say many American officials. The Soviets would stomp out of the talks looking like the spoilers. That would put the lie to their advertisements for themselves as infinitely patient good guys in the eyes of Europe...
...wanted a publisher based in Manhattan rather than one in faraway Boston, explained Mailer's agent, who down-played reports that, in addition to New York, Random House threw in a tidy $4 million for the author's next four novels. Meanwhile, Doubleday also had something to bark about. Its newest author is one C. Fred Bush, 11, four-legged companion of George and Barbara Bush. Due in April, C. Fred's Story: A Dog's Life, "edited slightly" by his mistress, will provide (for $11.95) a shin-rubbing view of the vice presidential household...
...Tory government should move quickly to spur further denationalization as it has with the mammoth British Telecom--reorganize the stifling tax system to encourage competition and entreprencurism, and firm up relations with the Common Market and Europe, not to mention South America. Only if Thatcher adds bite to her bark will the electorate be able to judge her on her performance instead of her personality...
...savagery of the assault on West Beirut, although many of his policies had been quietly endorsed by Begin. At a meeting of intimates, Sharon boasted: "I have the survivability of a superpower. No criticisms or opposition will harm me." On another occasion he remarked: "The dogs may bark, but the caravan goes on its way." Still, when Begin, angered by the inordinately heavy and prolonged bombardment of Beirut ordered by his Defense Minister, told Sharon to ease his attacks, there was no protest. Others who once opposed Begin, including even Moshe Dayan, were adroitly maneuvered out of the previous Cabinet...