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...added that "I don't fault Senator Helms' sincerity with regard to wanting the records opened up." And while he praised King's "accomplishments" in combatting "a discrimination that was pretty foreign to what is normal with us," he said he would have preferred a day of remembrance to the holiday...
...unsual degree of influence in shaping policy. But as a prospective National Security Adviser, she had obvious drawbacks. In dealings with colleagues as well as adversaries, Kirkpatrick tends to be everything McFarlane is not: high-strung, argumentative, ideological, organizationally disheveled, and candid to a fault. At White House meetings, says one Reagan aide, "she doesn't give an inch. When she really gets going, she throws down her glasses on the table." Reagan's advisers surely knew that if she were picked, Kirkpatrick could be expected to exacerbate rather than mediate Administration turf and ideological disputes. Her hard...
...just, criticism. Besides the ethical issue of whether or not the United States is living up to its treaty responsibilities as the United Nations' host (it's not in this case), the decision to harass Gromyko makes for bad politics. It permits other countries, all too eager to find fault with Number One, conclude that the United States is taking unfair advantage of its position as U.N. host to further its parochial interests...
...same wasteland set directs all attention to the actors, who usually cannot handle the responsibility. This is not entirely their fault: Sellars, whose theatrical forte is opera, directs them in a stagnant, grandiose style which quickly overdoes it, as in a knights' dance which starts amusingly and continues until it becomes embarrassing. In opera this may be acceptable: in theater it is frustrating and boring...
...parts. The government blames that shortage on the U.S. for leading a campaign to cut off Nicaragua's international credit at a time when the country is staggering beneath an estimated $3 billion in foreign debt. "If we do not have oil, bread and soap, it is the fault of aggressor imperialism," declares a typically hostile sign outside a low-income housing project in Managua...