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...still rising. Labor Party Leader Michael Foot, borrowing from Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado, scorned Howe's cost-and-balance sheet as "a thing of shreds and patches." The government, he said, still showed "no proper understanding of the scale of the catastrophe which has befallen our country and our people...
...American bishops have understandably been influenced by the tragedies that have befallen a number of clergy and church workers in El Salvador, including the slaying of liberal Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero in March 1980 and the murders of four American women missionaries later that year. Right-wingers are suspected of killing the archbishop and five former national guardsmen have been charged with killing the missionaries. The bishops have contended for two years that the U.S. must not become too closely identified with the Salvadoran government. Archbishop James A. Hickey of Washington last year told the House Subcommittee on Inter-American...
...what price? What has become of the sweet voice that made its owner the most affecting Rodolfo of his generation in Puccini's La Bohemel What has befallen the technique that allowed Pavarotti to toss off the famous nine high Cs in an aria from Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment with the effortless abandon that marks only the greatest tenors? What has happened to the suave phrasing and sure sense of style, which made his recording of Nessun dorma from Turandot an example to musicians everywhere? Have Pavarotti's duties as operatic emissary to the world...
...former President blamed Khomeini, who was once his mentor, for "the appalling disaster that has befallen the country. Said Banisadr: "We must try to find a quicker way of overthrowing the absolutists who lust after power only." The remarks upset French officials, who reminded Banisadr of the terms of his exile and forced him to cancel a press conference...
While the National Security Adviser cannot be blamed for the recent misfortunes that have befallen the U.S. or for the President's own failures of leadership, Brzezinski is personally responsible for exacerbating institutional tensions within the Government, needlessly agitating foreign leaders with his penchant for braggadocio, and sowing confusion with pronouncements that too often sound like geostrategic gobbledygook. Thus he has contributed to the impression so widespread at home and abroad of an Administration that is impetuous and in disarray. In that sense, Brzezinski is unquestionably part of Carter's overall political problem, now as the President faces...