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...sounds of Muzak. When a low-flying Von Richthofen is machine-gunned down by the Australians, it is not the historical inaccuracy that counts (he was probably felled by a Canadian R.A.F. pilot) but the fact that his death touches no nerve. That is not John Vickery's fault, for he and the rest of the cast perform feats of acting valor with a script that goes AWOL from the curtain's rise...
...Israel has destroyed Camp David by invading Lebanon. Camp David came at a certain period of time. We don't fault it for what it accomplished. But we fault it for what it did not accomplish. It did not accomplish a solution regarding the Palestinian problem, regarding the occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza, the Golan, regarding the territories occupied in June 1967 and the rights of [the Palestinian] people to self-determination. We wish the two principles that were applied in the Falklands crisis had been applied here: the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory...
...perspectives on world affairs. Rarely, if ever, has there been an Administration headed by a President and a White House inner circle that is less equipped to reconcile those differences. The result is a gaping vacuum at the center. And that, of course, was not Al Haig's fault...
...followed by a primer on Reaganomics: cutting the level of Government spending, deregulation and a tax program to stimulate investment. U.S. inflation was coming down, and unemployment, he hastened to add, started rising before his election; as for the recession, well, that was the Federal Reserve's fault because it reined back too quickly on the money supply. Yes, he conceded, the budget deficit is too high, but we're trying to cut back...
...Policy, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y.: "Let's not cast around for villains and come up with the Arabs for raising the price of their oil or the Japanese for stealing our technology. Our lost momentum in the world's marketplaces is largely our own fault. Back when we were basking in the dreams of an economic never-never land, Nos. 2 and 3 and on down the line were gearing up for just what we've always said American society thrived on-competition. We thought they could never catch up, but they tried harder...