Word: experts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Gorski unexpectedly resigned last March, and Wyatt named William A. Lee, a labor-relations expert, as acting chief. Despite Lee's efforts, however, the two sides have been unable to come to terms...
Zbigniew Brzezinski, the President's foreign policy expert, is fully schooled in the tradition of predecessors like McGeorge Bundy, Walt Rostow and Kissinger. Crisis was a way of life. Their families were stangers. They set up cots next to their desks so that they could be within steps of the hot-line messages that dropped into the Situation Room. Not only did Brzezinski defy tradition by going off to Maine's Mount Desert Island for a week, but when his boss was at Camp David, he played tennis on the White House court in the middle...
Inside each of us is a frozen êclair waiting to be microwaved, and this ridiculous flick, filmed on the cheap by Film Consortium of Canada Inc., does the job well. Hollis McLaren is winsomely demented. When Actor Russell puts on his show, the masquerades are expert and funny enough to let straights see the bent world in a way that will not threaten most of them. Normal householders walk out of the theater snuffling happily after his exit line. Liza, who has fled to Manhattan following the stillbirth, is acting like a zombie. She says she is dead...
...treaty is rejected, we'll confront a bloody mess in Panama, and elsewhere." It is generally conceded that the waterway is basically indefensible. Determined guerrillas could close it down for an indefinite period by lobbing a few hand grenades into lock machinery. Says a top British military expert: "The whole history of the years of decolonization since 1945 has shown that however big the army you deploy, you cannot win against a hostile population and terrain?which in Panama means taking on a population of 2 million and 50 miles of jungle plus 1,000 miles of semitropical hell." Adds...
Berkowitz's rather withdrawn personality seems to have developed its more ominous oddities after he joined the Army in 1971. He flunked his first rifle-shooting test but eventually qualified as an infantry sharpshooter (the middle ranking between marksman and expert) with the M-16 rifle. Early in his Army service, for unknown reasons, he left Judaism to become a fundamentalist Baptist after attending hand-clapping revival meetings...