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...were hosts at a Sunday lunch aboard the moored French frigate De Grasse (named for Admiral François de Grasse, whose naval blockade sealed the English defeat at Yorktown). There, after lobster and lamb, Mitterrand told Reagan that he relished "the humor of your conversation" and toasted "the generous smile of Mrs. Reagan." A few hours later the Presidents, their wives and 92 others arrived, amid fife-and-drum fanfare, for a black-tie state dinner at the 260-year-old Royal Governor's Palace in Williamsburg, twelve miles from Yorktown. Reagan, loose and happy, spilled a wineglass...
Truffaut has always been fascinated by the destructive potential of obsessed love. He handles it here with a detachment that never becomes dispassion, a generous and evenhanded sympathy for both its victims that is not allowed to slip into melodrama, satire or even irony. This time, in fact, he provides a surrogate for himself in the person of an older woman, Mme. Jouve (Véronique Silver), the manager of the tennis club where much of the action takes place. She is gray, like the subdued light of the film itself. She is quotidian in her concerns, as Truffaut...
Critics argue that the case against a generous arms sale policy is as compelling as the one for it. The most vivid example of the limitations of weaponry to win friends and influence countries is Iran: after $10 billion of arms deliveries, the Shah was deposed and replaced by Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's violently anti-American regime. The occasional success that the Soviets and Americans have had in wooing each other's clients proves that the influence secured by sales can be less than lasting. As Andrew Pierre puts it: "Longterm weapons are sold to what may be short-term...
While Reagan's policy is freehanded enough, it may prove initially less generous in practice. Reason: congressional determination to trim the annual foreign aid bill, the means by which most government-to-government arms sales are financed. The President asked for $6.7 billion in economic and military assistance for fiscal 1982, up from $5 billion spent in 1981. At a time when the nation is trying to cope with the new austerity, Congress may well reject any increases...
...deans of Ivy League admissions offices will meet this week to discuss joint strategies; we urge them to maintain--and, if possible, increase--already generous financial aid offerings. They should also, together, call upon the federal government to restore student loan programs targeted for elimination. Commitment to financial assistance is particularly crucial in light of a recent estimate by one financial aid officer that total yearly cost here will reach $30,000 per year within ten years...