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...with anarchy last summer, when he seemed to represent the extremes of rebellion, often appears now like any bedraggled labor negotiator, cursing out the hotheads. But the Poles and their present government, which is far more scared of the Soviets than Solidarity appears to be, are simply in a bind. They cannot beat the Soviets in a fight, so they must cool things down, thus taking the first rational step of a threatened nation. What the Soviets would like to determine is if still deeper stages of subservience are forthcoming...
Using his laboratory expertise, Bjorn-Larsen developed a way to bind the chemical polyvinyl chloride to elastic girdle fabric and thereby make the inner cuffs of the garment sticky enough to hold up stockings. In 1965 Munsingwear, a major clothing manufacturer and maker of the familiar Penguin shirts, signed a contract with Bjorn-Larsen, promising him $1,000 a month as advances on royalties for exclusive use of his idea. But in late 1967 the payments stopped after totaling $14,000; Munsingwear told him that his idea had not panned...
Haig went so far as to suggest to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that concern over Soviet aggression might overcome the fierce internecine religious and cultural struggles in the Middle East and somehow loosely bind the countries there into a "consensus of strategic concerns." As part of that process, he urged that the ban on U.S. aid to Pakistan be lifted. Pakistan, which borders on Soviet-occupied Afghanistan, is prohibited from receiving American economic and military aid because of its nuclear armament program. A guarantee of regional security, he argued, would lessen Pakistan's "thirst" for its own nuclear...
Such passages are rarely dull, but they do produce a peculiar lifelessness in the novel as a whole. There is little to propel the reader forward except the expectation of more information. Vidal provides a multitude of incidents but no strong plot to bind them together. Cyrus abjures suspense; he has the habit of introducing characters by telling what finally happens to them first. Aside from the old man's large memory, Creation is unified by a single irony: Cyrus tells of his search for religious certainty to the person who will one day become an eminent philosopher...
...recent months, the Saudis have been meeting with five other Persian Gulf states* to lay the political underpinning for a proposed Gulf Council for Cooperation, which would bind the region with formal defense as well as economic and cultural ties. They have improved relations with a radical former adversary, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, to the extent that Riyadh was accused of complicity-or at least patent moral support -in Iraq's original assault against Iran...