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...faces the same bleak economic picture. Industrial recovery, as Chrysler learned, can come through close cooperation with organized labor. Yet President Reagan, formerly of the Screen Actors Guild, seems to have no more regard for unions than his counterpart across the Atlantic Reagan's wholesale liquidation of the air controllers union. PATCO, and his proposals for a flexible minimum wage and child labor standards fly in the face of trade union principles...
...have also been somewhat ambiguous. Prize-winning Author Donald Barthelme praised it as "a most thoughtful meditation on the sociology of power," but the New York Times said that the "brilliant" Sennett "knows too much for a novelist." Sennett disputes the contradiction. He not only sees Frog as a counterpart to his previous book of social criticism, Authority (1980), but sees both as the beginning of an eight-part series (four of them novels) on the main emotional relations underlying modern society: authority, solitude, fraternity and ritual...
...Geneva, one team of U.S. negotiators has been bargaining with its Soviet counterpart to limit each side's medium-range nuclear missiles. In meetings that started last month, another team aims to reduce the arsenals of intercontinental nuclear missiles. But the White House last week sent out a different, dissonant signal concerning arms control. President Reagan and his National Security Council decided against resuming negotiations, suspended for almost two years, toward a comprehensive ban on testing nuclear warheads. The Administration said that it is not opposed to the test ban, and only wants first to make compliance with earlier...
...counterpart to this emotion-packed relationship is provided by the unemotional scientists who threaten to destroy the bond between child and creature. In the opening sequence, they are filmed from a child's perspective, so that their heads are out of the camera's range. They become more foreign to the audience than the spaceman himself. They are the enemy because they represent a complete lack of subjective feeling. To Elliott, E.T. is a friend--a cross between a pet and a bosom buddy; to them, he is merely a subject for scrutiny...
Edward Rowny read aloud a letter from President Reagan calling the superpowers "trustees for humanity in the great task of ending the menace of nuclear arsenals." His Soviet counterpart Victor Karpov delivered a brief homily, concluding that "the most important thing about these talks is that we are now finally talking." With that opening exchange last week at Villa Rose, Moscow's diplomatic mission in Geneva, the two negotiators ended a hiatus of three years and resumed an esoteric, tedious and secrecy-shrouded but vital business: trying to reduce the swollen Soviet and U.S. inventories of the most powerful...