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...again, the legislators had bowed meekly to lobbies unconcerned about the broader national interest. Ostensibly, O'Neill and the Democrats control the House by a margin of 268 to 167. But in the 214-to-204 vote against considering the tax bill, the Speaker's slipping leadership grip was evident: he found 65 Democrats voting against him. An even bigger factor in the loss was the partisanship of the Republican opposition. Fully 149 G.O.P. Representatives voted nay, only 13 aye. O'Neill's barbed protest was apt: "The next time I see Republican crocodile tears about...
...Khomeini Shi'ite clerics. During last year's Israeli invasion of southern Lebanon, Musawi was joined by 300 Iranian Revolutionary Guards who had entered the country through Syria with the avowed intention of battling the Israelis. Instead, the Guards stayed in Baalbek to help Musawi consolidate his grip. As the number of Guards grew to some 1,000 during the next few months, they transformed the city and its environs into a miniature Iranian state. They lectured the locals on Khomeini's Musawi under Khomeini's picture teachings, banned liquor and forced women to wear headscarfs...
...rebels of nearby El Salvador, and the U.S., of course, is backing anti-Sandinista rebels. (Last week the U.S. Senate approved $19 million in continuing covert aid for the Nicaraguan insurgents.) Says Detlev Vagts, professor of law at Harvard: "I don't think international law has got a grip on the issue of covert activity, in which you arm and support rebels within a country...
...forcing us to confront our own problems, and our difficulties in expressing our thoughts. This particular production, superbly interpreted by the cast, plays off of the audience's attention, and as we get consumed in their actions, they in turn become more and more tense and brutal, relaxing their grip only when the lights...
...lead Hedda to destroy men's careers in her quest for "perfect moments" appears only in intermittent flashes. Raffi as Tesman and Linda Gray as Mrs. Elvsted--perhaps the feistiest of Hedda's intended victims--offer even less depth. Raffi in particular, though he seems to have a good grip on the well-meaning naive Tesman, over-emotes so consistently that his voice deteriorates into bleating...