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...from contrasts in their backgrounds and experience. Eisenhower had orchestrated the largest and most complex military operation in history-the retaking of Western Europe. In that job, he functioned as supreme diplomat as well as soldier. Ike's expertise in foreign policy was thorough, practiced and instinctive. He dealt with men like Churchill on an equal basis. Reagan has worked as an actor and served a creditable eight years as Governor of the nation's most populous state. That experience may exceed Jimmy Carter's when he arrived in Washington, but it does not stack up well...
...success in the courts, like fame on the screen, can be fleeting. In the past six months, three rulings have dealt heirs of the famous a heavy blow. In December the California Supreme Court reversed the Lugosi decision. It also rejected the claims of a nephew of Rudolph Valentino, who had sued over a fictionalized account of his uncle's life broadcast on ABC-TV. Then in March a U.S. appeals court overturned the Tennessee ruling on the Presley statuettes...
...Mike Blumenthal, thwarting Ted Kennedy, and working on the release of the hostages. He gets worked up when he talks of meetings with the Shah, recalling the monarch's piercing eyes staring suspiciously at him, refusing to believe that no country except Panama would accept him. He dealt covertly for months with the Iranians, and they had their own name for this American who might break the impasse: the Cowboy...
Matters of Communist Party discipline are settled in secretive party tribunals. Commercial disputes between state enterprises, typically involving delivery delays and complaints about quality, are dealt with by special arbitration panels. Minor civil and criminal matters are handled by Comrades' Courts, which deal with such petty matters as tenant grievances and driver's license suspensions. Under an antihooliganism law enacted in 1966 to cover crimes ranging from disorderly conduct to assault, a patrolman can write up a citizen for minor offenses like rowdyism and public drunkenness, and within 24 hours the chief of police will decide whether...
...virtuosity. Although he has written enormously popular stories in a realist vein, Aksyonov has gone on to explore a variety of modes and permutations of language, entering the 1980s as the Soviet Union's only truly modern prose writer. His evolution is instructive. Aksyonov's first fiction dealt with a previously unheard-of theme: the real life of Soviet teenagers...