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...Darn (Victor Patrick) directs the KGB agents within the Law School, aided by comrades Boris (Rosanna Marquez) and the bearded Natasha (Temple Dickinson), whose female name is the closest the play comes to transvestitism. The fat actor also eats from a Purina dog chow bag and smiles eagerly at the expression "you're beating a dead horse." Agent Orange (Nancy Frantz) bursts out of a frigid, schoolteacher's exterior in the sultry song Mean Streak. Dean Dean (Phil Kraft), the absent-minded administrator, sits naked in a kiddie pool and sings to his rubber duck about the comparative rigors...
That critique will scarcely calm angry minorities and women. "We knew darn well they weren't going to be appointing Hispanics in this Administration," says Arnold Torres, executive director of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Torres adds that his organization no longer bothers to lobby the White House on judicial choices. His anguish is shared by District of Columbia Superior Court Judge Gladys Kessler, head of the National Association of Women Judges. "The record is dismal," says Kessler. "We have some grave concerns about whether this Administration is really looking for women candidates." She also charges that...
...network reports. "Hey, look at that!" he said excitedly when an exit poll showed that half of the voters felt the President's program needed more time to work. This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than a few individual disappointments ("Gosh darn it," he muttered when Nebraska Governor Charles Thone lost), Reagan was satisfied with the results. "There was nothing to suggest a need to change the basic course," said Counsellor Edwin Meese, expressing Reagan's sentiments...
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...foreign know-how. The Soviets already produce sophisticated aircraft turbines, which require expertise in high-temperature technology, aerodynamics and stress analysis. Says Victor de Biasi, editor of Connecticut-based Gas Turbine World magazine: "Anybody who can produce aircraft turbines of as high a caliber as the Soviets do can darn well produce turbines for use on earth." Indeed, French and West German companies last week were discussing the possibility of substituting Soviet turbines for the embargoed U.S. models...