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Defense Secretary Weinberger, meanwhile, reiterated his customary harsh assessment of Soviet intentions and capabilities in a speech he gave at Fort McNair, in Washington, D.C. Charged Weinberger: "It is neither reasonable nor prudent to view the Soviet military buildup as defensive in nature." Both addresses got Soviet attention. TASS dismissed Haig's pledge of arms talks and assailed Weinberger's saber rattling. The Soviet news agency called the former an attempt to "whitewash the present aggressive course of the Washington Administration" and said the latter "can be qualified only as a call...
Whether Reagan was playing shrewd politics, or merely following his own best instincts, almost did not matter. After naming O'Connor, the President suddenly found himself awash in praise from a wide range of political liberals, moderates and old-guard conservatives. At the same time, he was under harsh assault from the moral-issue zealots in the New Right who helped him reach the Oval Office. Although they had little chance of blocking the nomination, they charged that O'Connor was a closet supporter of the ERA and favored abortion...
...relatively lenient sentences, handed down by a five-judge panel, drew harsh reactions beyond the courtroom, since they fell far short of what prosecutors had asked for: life imprisonment for four of the defendants and jail terms of between five and ten years for three others. Heinz Galinski, a Jewish spokesman in West Berlin, described the sentences as "an insult to all victims of the National Socialist regime." Even West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told a group of Israelis who had formerly lived in West Germany that he found himself in "complete understanding" with the victims' relatives...
Fassbinder means to contrast death on the Russian front and in the refugee camps (shot in the harsh, primary colors of the Fauves) with life on cloud nine of the Nazi fantasy (shown in the pastel soft-focus of the later Doris Day films). Indeed, one can find hints of the director's auto biography: a contrast between his pinchpenny past and his recent, glossier work. He appears here in the role of a "secret Resistance fighter"-against the Nazis on-screen and the moneymen of the new German cinema. But he puts up too little resistance...
Heedless of Zeus, Prometheus gave the secret of fire to mortals, and was punished by being bound to a cliff in the wastes of Scythia. There an eagle fed on his liver, which, once consumed, grew back, only to be devoured again. A harsh response, considering that Prometheus only sought to give man a little mastery over nature. But Zeus was notorious for overreacting. Who knows what punishment he would have devised for the modern enlightened nations that, in the interest of mastery over nature, have handed out nuclear power with such deliberate generosity these past few years...