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...more ominous from Somoza's viewpoint was a U.S. request for intervention that would end both the civil war and his family's 46-year dictatorial rule over Nicaragua. The day after a national guardsman wantonly murdered ABC-TV Correspondent Bill Stewart (see PRESS), the Carter Administration spurned the dictator's emotional appeal for the U.S. to "pay back the help we gave in the cold war"-referring to the launching areas that Nicaragua provided for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961. Instead, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance urged the Organization of American States...
Many of them feel they have no choice. As one officer put it: "If we give up, the Sandinistas will kill us." But there is a growing recognition that the civil war cannot be stopped as long as Somoza reigns. As an American-trained national guardsman put it last week, "In this war, nobody gives an inch. The current round could cease in two weeks. But when it does, both sides will just rearm, and we'll be fighting again in three months or so, just like before...
...Army still overwhelmingly commanded by whites, many of whom have not yet adjusted fully to the concept of a color-blind military. Alexander was educated at Harvard University and Yale Law School, not West Point. Actually, his military experience was six months' active duty as a National Guardsman. As Secretary of the Army, he asks hard questions about the treatment of black soldiers. He also is a strong advocate of a greater role for women, to the distress of many generals, including Rogers, who think too many women too soon may damage the Army's combat readiness...
DIED. Alfred Lunt, 84, celebrated actor and director who with his wife Lynn Fontanne reigned over Broadway for nearly four decades; of cancer; in Chicago. The Lunts, who began acting together on Broadway soon after they were married in 1922, co-starred in more than two dozen plays (The Guardsman, Reunion in Vienna, There Shall Be No Night, The Visit), some of which Lunt also directed. Creating a chemistry of opposites, he tall and temperamental, she lithe and blithe, theater's royal couple delighted playgoers with their consummate craftsmanship and their sophisticated badinage both onstage and off. Though...
Even a festival devotedly committed to the classics can afford a little sophisticated comic relief, and that is what this play provides. The Lunts won vast acclaim with The Guardsman when they opened in it in 1924, though one can scarcely imagine this somewhat fragile comedy holding its own on Broadway...