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...worsening outlook and the criticism have not fazed the government, which is determined to free Britain from 30 years of Keynesian economic theory and even more government involvement in the economy. In an interview with TIME'S Frank Melville, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe talked openly of the "almost frighteningly bad" economic outlook. But, he added, "people have still not appreciated the scale of difficulties. They have got to understand the length of time which will be necessary to achieve modest but firm steps in the right direction. Within four years, we should be able to point...
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙ The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky White House Years, Henry Kissinger
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, Andrew Birkin ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Falcon andthe Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙The Russian Empire, Chloe Obolensky ∙White House Years, Henry Kissinger
NONFICTION: Charmed Lives, Michael Korda ∙J.M. Barrie & the Lost Boys, Andrew Birkin ∙Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich, as related to and edited by Solomon Volkov ∙The Duke of Deception, Geoffrey Wolff ∙The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙W.H. Auden, Charles Osborne ∙White House Years, Henry Kissinger
...locale is Africa. Reporters are bee-swarming on the scent of deep trouble in the emergent nation of Kambawe. The dictator, President Mageeba (Clarence Williams III), is toughing it out with a rival faction. Three newshounds converge on the opulent, isolated home of Geoffrey Carson (Joseph Maher), a British businessman with the most mines to lose. Dick Wagner (Paul Hecht) is a hardbitten Aussie, and a staunch unionist with a habit of regarding the Daily Globe, his paper, as larger than the earthly one. He is visibly miffed to find that an idealistic fledgling staff writer, Jacob Milne (Peter Evans...