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Humphrey's campaign aides admit that he isn't a fiery, exciting campaigner, but in a year of Reaganism, backing the Great Communicator to the hilt may just do the trick. His edge in campaign financing won shurt either; in what is the most expensive campaign in New Hampshire history. Humphrey will spend about $1.2 million, $300,000 more than his opposition...
...mistake of accepting some vague assurances from the Syrians that they would leave Lebanon if the Israelis did too. After months of U.S. diplomatic shuttling around the Middle East, Shultz got his Israeli-Lebanese withdrawal agreement. But the pact was worthless because the Syrians, by now rearmed to the hilt by the Soviet Union, were not about to leave. They felt that the agreement legitimized the 1982 invasion by giving Israel special rights in southern Lebanon...
Inevitably, the animosity has found political echoes. France's far-right Front National probably commands no more than 3% support nationwide, but it has made significant electoral gains in some communities with large immigrant populations. The Netherlands' ultraconservative Centrum-Partij, playing the racial theme to the hilt, finds similar support. In Britain and West Germany, right-wingers in the ruling parties have thundered ominously about racial issues, to the embarrassment of their colleagues...
...from its comic trump cards--buffoonery and lewdness. The crowd is treated to a male slave (Bob Brown) being forced by Pseudolus to don women's clothing, only to be pursued by nearly every man in the cast. The young girl Philia plays her airhead-blonde character to the hilt, unwittingly offering herself to the wrong men and ruining the schemes designed to unite her with Hero. And Pseudolus moves rapidly from character to character, passing himself off as head of the house, a soothsayer, a brothel-keeper, and, of course, Cupid...
...discard his hopes for Western European neutralism, or the Soviet Union's image among impressionable Third World countries, in order to flex his military muscle. In all probability, Andropov and Co. were not even consulted about flight 007. Instead, a general on the ground followed standing instructions to the hilt and ordered his pilot to fire...