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...group of stories under the rubric "Canadians Abroad" finds Gallant's characters pursuing an elusive freedom in Europe. A young woman seeks love on the French Riviera with the most improbable of romantic figures, a retired inspector of prisons in one of Britain's former Asian colonies. When she leaves him she takes up with a fellow "in terrible trouble -- back taxes, ex- wife seizing his salary." A pair of perpetual expatriates seem doomed to misadventure: they pile up debts; they are ostracized by fellow Ca- nadian exiles; they have rows with hotel managers, and their children throw...
...many defense contractors cheat the Government? Just "a few bad apples," is Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's reply. But last week the Pentagon's inspector general, Joseph Sherick, startled a House subcommittee by revealing that 45 of the 100 largest defense contractors are under investigation for possible illegalities relating to their military work. Sherick said he will recommend that Weinberger ban two top executives of General Dynamics, Chairman David Lewis and Chief Financial Officer Gordon MacDonald, from dealing with Pentagon contracts. The firm recently agreed to repay the Government $244 million in improperly charged expenses. Such a blackball would...
...Pentagon's Inspector General, Joseph Sherick, counters with an impressive array of statistics that he says reflect a near doubling in the amount of savings and avoided waste at the Defense Department in each of the past three years. If he is correct, such vigilance will eventually do more than simply save money. More important, it will restore the public support for a stronger defense that has been squandered by repeated revelations of the waste, fraud and abuse that Ronald Reagan pledged to conquer...
...work, as retrospectives are meant to--but downward. It is, however, a delight to visit. One could write a little dictionary of received ideas about this engaging "primitive." It would begin with his nickname, the Douanier. (He was not, as MOMA's excellent catalog stresses, a customs inspector, but a much lowlier form of bureaucratic life, a gabelou, or toll collector.) The dictionary would go through a whole list of legendary things that Rousseau did not do or see or say, things he cooked up himself (such as the innocent fiction that he had been to Mexico in the army...
Unfortunately, Gilbert's tender heart finds it impossible to kill the pig and prefers to let it carry out its pungent existence in his suburban home. Meanwhile, the evil Ministry of Food inspector Wormold (Bill Paterson) is keeping his Big Brother-esque eye on him. A man with neither smell nor taste, Wormold is fast becoming suspicious of Gilbert...