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...lively. The story, a gutsy farce that Poulenc took from a drama by Apollinaire, concerns a fed-up woman named Thérèse (Soprano Catherine Malfitano) who decides to quit the second sex by removing her breasts-really two bright balloons. Meanwhile, her husband (Baritone David Holloway) assumes female dress and godlike fecundity; in a day he/she produces 40,049 offspring. Eventually both resume their original genders and celebrate the need to repopulate the world after war. Among Hockney's wacky touches: solemn wicker baby prams and grave pasteboard infants who pop up from them. Malfitano...
...they commissioned two studies, one a classified internal report by the men who had planned and participated in the mission, the other a no-holds-barred assessment by an interservice team of five generals, some retired, some active, headed by former Chief of Naval Operations Admiral James L. Holloway III. The Holloway group's 64-page report, released at week's end, dismisses all thought that the mission was aborted for any reason but the lack of six helicopters, the acceptable minimum, in which to go on from Desert One, the refueling rendezvous...
Presenting his report in the Pentagon's briefing studio, Holloway said that the plan adopted had "the best chance of success under the circumstances, and the decision to execute it was justified." He added: "We encountered not a shred of evidence of culpable neglect or incompetence...
...Holloway group did, however, find several faults. The number of helicopters was kept to eight to reduce the risk of discovery. But the brass concluded that it would have been prudent to have used at least ten choppers. They also criticized the selection of Navy and Marine Corps crewmen who were familiar with the RH-53 aircraft but not with the kind of tough, assault flying they...
TIME'S Pentagon correspondent Don Sider has also learned of an additional oversight, not mentioned in the Holloway report. Sider reports that two C-141 Medevac planes were standing by at Saudi Arabia's Dhahran Air Base with twelve doctors on board to treat casualties from the team that was to have assaulted the embassy and the foreign ministry in Tehran. But no one had reckoned on the crash at Desert One that took eight lives and left four others badly burned. Incredibly, the Medevac planes were equipped for every emergency but burns...