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...have a grip on a very traditional form of journalist," Daniel Schorr told a small group at the Harvard Law School Forum last night...
...just as easily top $5 billion. There are more than 1,000 firms in the advising business in the Washington area alone, and for years they have been known as the Beltway Bandits, since so many are clustered along the highway that circles the city. Trying to get a grip on their multifarious activities, says Pryor, "is like wrestling with an 800-lb. marshmallow...
...problem. If the situation is left to extremists on both sides, there will never be an agreement." He believes, however, that the establishment of new Jewish settlements on the West Bank shows that the Begin government is seeking only to maintain the status quo in order to tighten its grip over the occupied territories. "The settlement activity shows that Israel is not serious. Begin won't formally annex the West Bank," says Abu Zuluf, "because he doesn't want all those Palestinians voting for the Knesset. He just wants the land and not the people." The tall...
...will have a Cabinet of his own choosing, whereas the present, 13-member Revolutionary Council includes many of his most powerful opponents. Says a senior government official: "You cannot operate under the constant threat of being stabbed in the back Meanwhile, Banisadr is trying to get a firm grip on the institutions of power As the country's newly appointed commander in chief, he conferred with military leaders about potential threats to Iran. Later, repeating his assertions that the hostage crisis is distracting Iranian from more important matters, he declared: "We ar surrounded by hostile forces...
Isamu Noguchi is the pre-eminent American sculptor. This fine-boned and unaged man, with a grip as tough as an old Maine lobster's, has expanded his work over an extraordinary range of images, media and purposes in the course of a 50-year career. Whether he is engaged with ballet and theater sets or monumental fountains, pieces for giant plazas or intimate playgrounds, huge sun discs fabricated from carved stone or diminutive wood sculptures and paper lamps, Noguchi's touch has never ceased to be subtle, precise and informed. He is entitled to be seen...