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Mitterand: You seem to be getting a lot of bad press, though, P.W. Many westerners who watched your speech last night were hoping you would extend universal suffrage to all South African people or at least enact something that looked progressive. I'm glad you decided to keep the white aristocracy strong, but that was very naughty of you not to meet with Bishop Tutu a few week...
After Thunderdome, Max takes a brief holiday in what seems like Walt Disney's version of Lord of the Flies. A tribe of deserted children enact with Durkheimian accuracy the ritual of their history for Max, then declare him to be their messiah. Max finds this scene to be quite annoying, as does the audience. Max states himself what the focus of a Mad Max movie should be when he declares that he is not a childrens' messiah, but rather, "the guy who keeps Mr. Death in his pocket." (Would that the directors had kept to that focus...
Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, who drafted the plan's explanatory letter sent to the 11,000 employees affected by the program, said the decision to enact the insurance came after nine months of planning and conversation among Corporation members...
...many Greeks, the conservative Caramanlis has served as a comforting balance to the leftist Papandreou. With Caramanlis in power, they reasoned, Papandreou could never enact his party's "strategic targets," which include withdrawing from NATO and closing down all U.S. bases in Greece. "It was a coup de theatre, in total disrespect for accepted political practices," said a stunned Greek newspaper editor...
Cuts causing so much pain would be difficult to enact under any circumstances. Reagan's allies in Congress have been warning him for weeks that the task will be impossible unless the public can be convinced that the military is sharing fully in the sacrifices all Americans must make to reduce the ominous $200 billion budget deficit. But the military savings that Reagan and Weinberger agreed on would leave the Administration $25 billion short of its goal of halving the deficit to $100 billion by fiscal...