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...step toward strengthening the central government in Lebanon and creating a stronger military, essential steps if the withdrawal of both Israeli and Syrian troops is to be negotiated. But there are also skeptics in the Administration who fear that if Gemayel resorts to ruthless tactics he will only further fragment the country. Said a senior official in Washington...
...major powers would really have the psychological capacity to strike first. He doubts the "madman" theory and the idea that missiles might be launched by computer failure. The human minds in charge of today's arsenals will still reject the holocaust as long as there is a fragment of evidence that it doesn't have to happen. There will always be that fragment. Clark Clifford, the Washington sage who has served four Presidents, declares: "It never seriously enters [Presidents'] minds that they really will have to use today's missile forces...
...have flowed across his desk every morning, convincing this President that a revolution in the Caribbean has been coaxed and fed by Moscow and Havana. The CIA gave the world a glimpse of that evidence last week. But documentation of a big military buildup in Nicaragua is only one fragment of the indoctrination the President has received in superpower chess...
...Jimmy Dean of the title-was fathered by the cinematic god himself. "At that time he was our savior," she says. "He was the only one who understood us." The crumbling movie set has become a holy shrine to her, and from every visit she proudly bears back a fragment, like a pilgrim with a relic of the true cross...
...fitting that this biographical fragment ends with Death in Venice. In that work Mann learned to treat death, madness, self-destruction at the level of genius. Yet when the artist stood up from his desk to talk about his work, he could barely survive his own respectability. For, as The Making of an Artist subtly reveals, Mann may have loved his Latin mother, but he became his Teutonic father. Winston might have concluded the life with out edging any closer to the man. At 36, Mann was complete. -By Melvin Maddocks