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...novel, though she makes no Mailerian claims for the achievement. She heartily dislikes Tarnower, his "repilian" face, his dictatorial and unimaginative diet book and his Westchester, N.Y., house, which she finds "Japanoid" and "claustral." From testimony and private conversation, she concludes that the cardiologist was "a small-time emotional imperialist," and "a glutton for other people's vulnerabilities." She gleefully notes that he took a nightly laxative mixed with applesauce and that, according to the autopsy report, the deceased was overweight by the standards set forth in his book, The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet...
Gromyko spoke before the assembly the next day. Evoking memories of the icy rhetoric of the cold war, the Soviet minister caustically attacked U.S. policies around the globe, including its "imperialist interference" in El Salvador. He charged that the U.S. Rapid Deployment Force, designed for quick military action around the world, was "nothing but a policeman's billy club." Noting the contrast between Haig's blandness and Gromyko's bellicosity, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson quipped that the talks had been given by "Mr. Haig and General Gromyko...
...flourished in the 1970s. Confirmation came the next day when the Frankfurt Rundschau, a left-of-center daily, received a three-page type written letter explaining in turgid jargon that Kroesen had been attacked "because he is one of the U.S. generals who effectively hold in their hands the imperialist policy from Western Europe to the [Persian] Gulf...
...that is all right; he speaks, of course, only for himself. And when we differ, both sides are better off knowing precisely where the other stands. It is not as if an activist presidency would be a break with Harvard's past; at least from the days of anti-imperialist President Eliot, Harvard's leaders have been involved in the world around them...
...Soviets reacted to the Solidarity resolutions with an outburst of angry invective. The appeal to the workers of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, said TASS, was an "openly provocative and impudent" act engineered by "a whole conglomeration of counterrevolutionaries of every ilk, including agents of imperialist secret services, all who hate socialism and the people's power in Poland...