Word: forli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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AQUICK-STRIKE FORCE would be no help to future presidents faced with crisis like the embassy takeover, except to give them one more option that could endanger hostage' lives. But it would be very convenient for future Secretaries of State who might itch to tip the balance in some civil...
Those interests are open to very different interpretations, however; and a careful examination of the arguments for the force reveals more suspect purposes. Senator Gary Hart (D-Colo.), for example, told The New York Times why we need the quick-strike force: "Our forces aren't structured well to intervene...
But the next Henry Kissinger will have his pet mechanized division to send off to the next Angola, thanks to the recent presidential decision to fund the force. The White House, hawkish congressmen and the Pentagon itself are using the fear excited by the embassy takeover to effect a turnabout...
THIS COLLECTION of programmes, rehearsal and production photos, and other memorabilia has been on display since October, but the publicity has been obscure (apt enough for Beckett, who's always agilely sought privacy, impatient reclusive misanthropic, niggardly and unwasteful about his vitality).
Beckett is photogenic; perhaps only Ezra Pound is more so, the secret being not to care what people think of you. This scorn for public taste seems distinctly 20th century. Beckett won't acknowledge the camera, and defies close-up. His wrinkles are far more impressive than W.H. Auden's...