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...bureau's correspondents found their list of assignments unusually heavy. Says Benjamin Cate, who has been Midwest's chief since 1975: "It was our busiest week with breaking stories since our cover on the Big Freeze of the winter of 1977. And it was just as frantic and even more complicated than any election-week reporting...
...reassures them. Emphasizing his considerable foreign affairs experience (CIA director, Ambassador to the U.N. and China), he criticizes Carter for overemphasizing human rights and calls instead for a policy based on strategic interests. Says he: "I sense that people are frustrated about foreign affairs. It is not a frantic cry but more of a muted feeling about how to restore respect for the U.S." He admits that the caucuses will be a "first test of whether organization can overcome lack of name identification. I have to do well in Iowa to get forward momentum to go into New Hampshire...
...REASON SO MUCH OF The Brethren reads like a $13.95 edition of People Magazine is that the authors approached a potentially important project like autograph hounds at a Broadway opening, scrambling from the curb to the lobby in a frantic attempt to collect anything possibly significant. During a pre-Christmas Harvard appearance, the authors said a journalist's job was simply to find out and print whatever he could. "And let the chips fall where they may?" one questioner demanded. "Yeah," Woodward answered, leaning back in his chair. "You can't as a journalist sit there and say what...
...Worlds and I Wanna Hold Your Hand (also written by the Lorraine team of Zemeckis and Gale). Set around Los Angeles right after Pearl Harbor, the film shows what might have happened if panicky Californians had convinced themselves that they were under Japanese at tack. The frantic characters come in all ages and types. There are jitterbugging kids at a USO dance (Treat Williams, Bobby DiCicco), trigger-happy soldiers and pilots (Dan Aykroyd, Warren Gates, John Be lushi), middle-aged suburbanites (Ned Beatty, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton), and stray German, American and Japanese commanding officers (Christopher Lee, Robert Stack, Toshiro...
Wall Street's bond market traditionally has been the haven for little old ladies with poodles. Unlike the frantic gold or stock exchanges, the "fixed income market" was as relaxed as a Norman Rockwell painting. On a normal day, prices might change one-sixteenth of a point...