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...good effort goes for naught, however, because of Richard McElvain's one-dimensional Macbeth. This is a pouty shlep of a thane--Felix Unger with broadsword. Again, it works fine in Act Five, when his "life's but a walking shadow," but we are bored mercilessly beforehand. How this guy gets to be king is certainly beyond comprehension. If he has vaulting ambition, then Ronald Reagan has naturally black hair...
...overhead. "What is it we hear?" asked Vinogradov. "Your own MiGs," retorted Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani then told Vinogradov that Soviet friendship overtures would get nowhere so long as Moscow supported Baghdad and the puppet regime in Afghanistan. TIME has learned that the Iranians believe Moscow knew of the Iraqi attack beforehand, and did not inform Tehran because it saw an opportunity to widen its influence. Said a senior Iranian official: "The Kremlin thought it could easily fill up what it perceived to be a vacuum left by the eviction of the U.S. from Iran...
...cuts, deregulating industry, cutting government spending. He gave Reagan and his staff good marks as fellow monetarists. But he cautioned that opposition would be stiff, especially during the first year, and warned that fiscal policies "could be defeated before they're started" unless the forces were well-marshaled beforehand. It was probably the best news of the afternoon...
...long line of white Mercedes sedans, perhaps as many as ten or twelve, moves at high speed through the center of Baghdad. The road has been cleared beforehand, except for an assortment of security cars disguised with foreign license plates. Each of the sedans in the procession is occupied, but on any given occasion, nobody can be sure which of them is actually carrying the VIP. The subject of all this elaborate camouflage: the tough and belligerent, extremely ambitious President of Iraq, Saddam Hussein...
...hours and tried out more than 100 crewmen. He was especially meticulous about sails, trying every conceivable combination and even putting three sailmakers on his crew. "We're not a great deal faster than they are," Conner says. "But all the sailing and all the preparation we did beforehand just gave us a little bit of an edge." Turner complains that Conner's "tremendously professional approach" has changed the Cup for the worse. Says he: "It knocks out of the competition forevermore anyone who's not prepared to give up three years of his life...