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...astonishing theatrical tour de force, sprawling across three stages and accompanied by three orchestras. The essentially atonal score nevertheless embraces a variety of styles, including a show-stopping military march. The libretto is one of the harshest antiwar tracts in all of opera, a soldier's tale of unrelieved brutality that opens in a battlefield slaughterhouse and ends with violent death in a madhouse...
Soviets mount their harshest attack yet against tenacious rebels...
...more than a decade, Warren Burger has used the podium at conventions of the American Bar Association to administer tongue-lashings to his colleagues. At the A.B.A. convention held in Las Vegas last week, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court delivered some of his harshest comments to date on the ethics of the U.S. bar. He called lawyers "hired guns" and "procurers" and accused some of advertising their services as if they were selling "mustard, cosmetics and laxatives." He said that attorneys file too many frivolous lawsuits and motions, and declared that a few "well-placed...
...this the "Iron Lady"-so christened by Leonid Brezhnev-who used to rival her good friend Ronald Reagan in anti-Soviet sentiments and rhetoric? Only four months ago, while on a visit to Washington, Thatcher had delivered some of her harshest invective ever against the U.S.S.R., accusing Moscow of conducting "a modern version of the early tyrannies of history." Yet things soon changed. Reagan's invasion, against Thatcher's advice, of the former British colony of Grenada and his heavy counterattacks in Lebanon prompted the British Prime Minister's decision to put more distance between herself...
Even Thatcher's sturdy friendship with Ronald Reagan suffered strains when American troops invaded Grenada, a Commonwealth member. The Prime Minister asked the President by telephone not to go through with the operation; afterward, she uttered her harshest words yet about the U.S. Said Thatcher: "If you are going to pronounce a new law that wherever Communism reigns against the will of the people the United States shall enter, then we are going to have some really terrible wars." She opposed U.S. reprisal attacks in Lebanon, where Britain had contributed 100 men to the 6,000-member Multi-National...