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...does not seem to feel the marvelous rightness when two players extend each other beyond the edge of what is possible. He does not report the gritty $ stretches when character rules the game's flow and the flow ruthlessly illuminates character. Bud Collins gave us such narration in his wonderfully lighthearted 1989 memoir, My Life with the Pros, and John McPhee wrote the classic tennis portraits (of Clark Graebner and Arthur Ashe) in Levels of the Game. Feinstein had the opportunity to write a book that would stand with these, but he is flat where he should be funny...
Addressing arms cuts, an emergency NATO meeting in Brussels last week demanded that the Soviet military honor all treaties and cease violations and evasions of last year's Europe-wide agreement on troop and conventional-arms rollbacks. Japanese opinion makers, meanwhile, were hoping to extend the arms- reduction process to Asia by sweetening Tokyo's aid offers to Moscow. Said University of Tokyo professor Haruki Wada: "I think there is a feeling among our people now that perestroika is of the first importance...
...credibility at a critical moment. After destroying the pillars of apartheid and persuading the U.S. and other countries to drop their sanctions against South Africa, De Klerk must try to get the A.N.C. and other black groups to the negotiating table to write a new constitution that would extend voting rights to the black majority. "Inkathagate," as the press dubbed the affair, may delay the start of an all-party conference, originally planned as early as September, where the major political groups will decide how to structure negotiations. Use of secret funds by Pretoria also raised suspicions that...
Irvine's twice-monthly newsletter, AIM Report, remains obsessed with persuading the New York Times and Washington Post to admit that they shape the news to fit a liberal political agenda. His tirades against the Times even extend to making suggestions on decor: he wants the paper to take down its plaque honoring its 1930s Moscow correspondent, Walter Duranty, whom he accuses of being a "Pulitzer prizewinning apologist for Stalin." Another Pulitzer prizewinner on Irvine's hit list is CNN's Desert Storm superstar, Peter Arnett, who, according to Irvine, "may have done more than any other single reporter...
Then, having run out of alternatives as the July 1 deadline for approving a budget neared, the lower house of the legislature reversed course and approved an income tax of 4.75%. But hours later, it was voted down in the state senate. Instead, the legislature tried to extend the sales tax to everything from haircuts to boat-slip rentals. Declaring that "it's up to me to harbor the resources of the state as best I can," Weicker vetoed the legislature's budget and suspended nonessential services...