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Many of the residents now feel oddly useless and irrelevant on their own islands. They feel unable to convey their mixed feelings of gratitude and frustration to the troops as they again assume the role of a submissive population. "I had to watch myself the other day," says one Port Stanley resident. "The soldiers thought they were being helpful by burning up my wood boxes. They thought it was rubbish. They don't understand how important everything is to us here. Wood is too expensive to burn." Snaps one housewife whose small cottage now contains nine soldiers: "You have...
...policy without regard for the needs of its Allies. It cannot blindly decide that what is good for the U.S. is necessarily good for Europe. It was the message of how the other half of the Alliance lives that Alexander Haig and his deputy Robert Hormats were trying to convey to the President before they were squeezed...
...regional American accent is all too prominent. His line-readings often make no sense. There are guttural sounds, snarls, nasalities, and a tendency to make every third line a climax. He seems to operate on a well-known theory; when in doubt, shout. There are better ways to convey pride, strength, and fearlessness. All this is regrettable, for Hotspur is penned as a virtuoso of language. I kept getting the impression that Walken was rehearsing for Stanley Kowalski and repeatedly wandered onto the wrong set. (The AST's 1962 mounting of this play had similar problems with a Hotspur played...
...True, communications can be a problem, but let's not disguise the issue. President Reagan should remind Secretary of State Haig and Ambassador Kirkpatrick of their duties: Mr. Haig to remain steadfast to the decision made by his boss; Mrs. Kirkpatrick to use her political savvy to convey our policy...
...Israeli invasion of Lebanon crowded the carefully staged media events of the tour for headline space and TV time on two continents. Indeed, the fighting conflicted with the image of mastery of foreign policy that Reagan was trying to convey: the U.S. seemed impotent to restrain a close ally from taking an action that the President deplored...