Word: dilemmas
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...festival did not flourish at the box office, it was not the artistic flop that some local critics claimed it was either. Robert Ward's opera Minutes Till Midnight, which took as its theme the moral dilemma of an atomic physicist, is less than exciting, but it has a serviceable tonal score and a singable libretto. Albee's The Man Who Had Three Arms, though wordy, is an intriguing, often hilarious parable about the hazards of fame in the TV age, with excellent performances by Robert Drivas, Patricia Kilgarriff and Wyman Pendleton. Williams' A House Not Meant...
...stick together, do not go out at night, and never photograph Syrian troops, who detained several photographers and reportedly pistol-whipped two. By contrast, the propaganda-wise Palestinians were eager to please, providing military guides to protect reporters. Los Angeles Times Correspondent David Lamb summed up the journalists' dilemma with a comparison to Viet Nam, which he had also covered: "There it was clear who the enemy was. But here you can't tell who your friends...
...reply on the extended deterrence. I think it still is important. In the balance of power since 1945 it has rested on the back of the major industrial areas of the world....close to the Soviet Union, which sets some of the basic dilemma of extending deterrence....The arguments about extended deterrence being dead: I think it's premature. But you are probably going to work in a mixture where there'll have to be more of a conventional component in it than a nuclear component...
...think that the basic dilemma that one has to keep in mind--that was my second point--is that if you want nuclear weapons for deterrence, which we do, since there are Russians out there, there has to be some possibility of their use....If on the other hand, they [turn out to] be too usable, there's always the possibility of their leading to a holocaust, which nobody wants to see either. So you're caught in a very tight space....I think what Reagan has done by his declarative policy is err in the direction of usability...
...consumers this summer will feel confident enough to spend the money from the tax cut. But the lack of a budget agreement and the prospects of more huge deficits in the future mean that the debilitating economic uncertainty will continue. Unless Congress and the Administration solve the present deficit dilemma, the expected summer business recovery could be short-lived, or perhaps not even start...