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DIPLOMACY IS NOTHING MORE than a game of chess played on the real-world chessboard, they say, and we all know that Ronald Reagan is no grandmaster. Hindered by inexperience and unsophistication in foreign affairs, he seems incapable of designing the cautions, prudent strategy necessary to lead a superpower in a dangerous and uncertain world...
...quite seriously that the other side would be tempted to destroy those few in a first strike." What he does not mention is the profusion of tactical and middle-range missiles throughout Europe and the constant threat of escalation they have created, Nuclear holocaust becomes the endgame on a chessboard designed for conventional warfare...
...Administration has toned down its rhetoric over El Salvador, but it has yet to calm renewed fears among Third World countries everywhere, particularly in Southern Africa, that the U.S. is now inclined to treat them solely as pawns on the Soviet-American chessboard. America's recent sizable donations to a fund for assisting African refugees (unmatched by a single ruble from the Soviets) and the current mission to Africa by a still unconfirmed Assistant Secretary of State (see WORLD) suggest an effort to assuage these feelings. To be sure, the U.S.S.R. regards Third World countries strictly as pawns...
...Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles an appropriately ceremonious mood, sitting in his studio library, staring down his Coriolanian proboscis and solemnly intoning "Fate deals the cards with the deck stacked against you...and you must play out your hand. Fate moves you like a pawn across the chessboard of life. Fate..." In Polanski's hands, Hardy's tragedy is like an extravagantly produced episode of Masterpiece Theater, the sauntering tale of a country lass victimized by forces beyond her control in Victorian England, the film oozes refinement; it is genteel to the point of passivity...
...again, when he wanted to return civil liberties to the people to bolster creativity, he didn't understand the practical realities of the era. Neither the United States nor the U.S.S.R. would allow free elections; they would have preferred to a make Yugoslavia another Latin American-type political chessboard with commensurate violence between the vying ideologies of each superpower. Tito did avoid this dilemma by the questionable method of limiting freedoms, but Djilas falls short of substantiating that a better state had been possible...