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...particular, Haig may clash again with Weinberger on policy toward the Middle East. He argued successfully last year that the U.S. should not impose the tough sanctions against Israel that Weinberger wanted after the Israeli raid against the nuclear reactor in Iraq. Haig feared that so blunt a tone would make Begin's government less receptive to American persuasion. But Haig's own policy of promoting a "strategic consensus" among the U.S., Israel and moderate Arab states against Soviet penetration of the area has gone nowhere, and the Secretary of State no longer uses the phrase. Haig...
...last week the escalating attacks on Volcker both by the Administration and in Congress had reached their shrillest pitch yet. Said Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker of Tennessee in graphically blunt terms: "It is time for the Fed to give us a little air, to get its foot off the nation's neck and give the economy an opportunity to recover...
...fashioned bazaar bargaining has now been made easier by computers. The machines locate the parties that might be able to make a trade and then give money-like credits that can be used in future deals. Says James Blunt, vice president of marketing and sales at Barter Systems' six-month-old office in Stamford, Conn.: "We operate very much like a bank-a bank of goods and services instead of cash...
...instance, the conscious distance of the bluesman from his subject that gives Stones songs their biting irony. And at the same time, it is the reckless abandon of a Chicago blues jam that separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British Invasion--not musically, at least. They wanted that "really good funky American sound," from the start, Richards announced in 1964. That raucous, reckless, eminently funky sound has endured as the Stones' special signature, regardless of what other influences...
Apart from the vault, the plot machinations include blunt instruments, arson and grotesque fright masks, but none of these prove either droll or scarifying. In the end, the old lady still rules her roost, but Claudette Colbert, alas, falls victim to the play. -By T.E. Kalem