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Flanked by aides from the conservative People's Party, Waldheim moves easily among the townspeople, handing out autographed photographs of himself. With little more than a week to go before the vote on June 8, the emotion has drained from the bitterest political campaign in Austria's postwar history. The dominant issue is raised only obliquely. "It's a good thing you have strong nerves," a Waldheim supporter tells the candidate. He is referring to three months of allegations, mainly founded on disclosures by the New York- based World Jewish Congress (W.J.C.), that Waldheim may have been a war criminal...
Among the bitterest reactions was that of Secretary of State George Shultz. At a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the fall of Saigon, Shultz said the contra cutoff had dire implications: "Broken promises. Communist dictatorship. Refugees. Widened Soviet influence, this time near our very border." Then he added angrily: "Here is your parallel between Viet Nam and Central America...
Jewison is white, but he has trudged this weary road before: in 1967 he directed In the Heat of the Night, a crackling confrontation between black man and redneck that won an Oscar for Best Picture. A Soldier's Story is his tautest, funniest, bitterest work since then, with a sparkling cast. For this, credit is due largely to Playwright Charles Fuller, whose A Soldier's Play earned the Pulitzer Prize and just about every other drama award of 1982, and to the Negro Ensemble Company, where the play was first staged. Every actor, from Adolph Caesar...
...likened Reagan to Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister who tried to appease Hitler in 1938, for Reagan's willingness to appease pragmatists on the deficit. The New Right's special targets are the preppies and pragmatists; George Bush has been the subject of some of the bitterest stories in Conservative Digest...
...saying, finally, is that words have begun to fail. The vocabulary in which his people speak, a jargon derived from televised reductions of reality and popularized psychology, leaves them without the tools they need to know their own minds, let alone the complexities of their shared existence. The bitterest of the many laughs Rabe provides derives from his recognition that the relentless articulateness of his people is only a higher form of inarticulateness...