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...quite possibly its most unwieldy. Incoming Premier Mariano Rumor named 27 Cabinet members, a postwar record. They will be supported by perhaps as many as 57 under secretaries (up from 40), vying for cars, chauffeurs, parking spaces and all the other perquisites of office. There were reasons for the glut. Rumor was intent on maintaining as broad a base of political support as possible, and his crowded Cabinet represented nearly every faction in his lumpy Center-Left government. Despite the skepticism that greeted the crazy-quilt coalition, however, the formation of a government was no small achievement in itself...
...view of the Palestinians, Israel is an imperialist colonial power occupying their land. With no hope of driving the Israelis out themselves, the Palestinians aim to provoke Israel into taking over so much territory that it finally chokes on a glut of Arabs within its borders. Moreover, says Arafat, "the very process of Israeli expansion will extend the war of liberation into all the countries bordering on the occupied territories, and they will take up the struggle in defense of their own existence"-perhaps with Russia this time drawn in on the Arabs' side...
...lend his slender scenario some contemporary relevance by forcibly inserting a variety of fashionable camera techniques and casting a Negro Maoist. Though his color photography begins effectively-notably in Zita's terror-glazed recollections of the Spanish Civil War-it ends by stifling the film in a glut of self-consciousness. Annie's seduction scene, for example, is absurdly overplayed in slow motion. Such sequences may look poetic in the cutting room; in the rhetoric of film they have become the equivalent of purple prose...
...years from now the new plants, plus the increased smelting capacity of Alcan Aluminium Ltd., should be able to put 348,000 short tons of ingots on the market annually, but some analysts are predicting an aluminum glut before then. Sir Val Duncan, chairman of Rio Tinto, disagrees. "If you look at it globally, that must be nonsense," he says...
...Service, which will eventually allow brokers to leave all stocks traded among themselves in a central clearinghouse, computerized certificates should go a long way toward streamlining back-office operations on Wall Street. But skeptics wonder whether the new measures may not be too late. Due to the paper work glut, brokers are often unable to deliver securities within the legal five-business-day period. Though such "fails" have not yet been a serious problem, technically they now represent a $3.24 billion debt owed by firms caught short of certificates. The situation could become critical if the market were to drop...