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...Reagan people knew they had a tremendous resource in their candidate's former rivals. "We have a blank check in terms of the time these men have available for us and the energy they are willing to invest. This kind of equanimity is highly unusual for us, and we intend to play it for all it is worth," Sen. Paul Laxalt (R-Nev.), Reagan's campaign chairman, said last summer after the harmonious convention...
...exalting the set, I don't intend to demean the actors, for most of them are at least good enough, and several are outstanding. In the role of Melchior, James Bundy gives a thoughtful and convincing portrait of age-in-youth. Daphne de Marneffe is chillingly effective as Mrs. Bergmann, particularly on the video screen--then she is a ten-foot-tall female gargoyle, and it is clear that all hope for these children is lost. De Marneffe's triumph, though, comes later, when she plays the 14-year-old nymphet Ilse. Here she is as enormously seductive as only...
...patience and stubbornness pay off eventually. Last week American negotiators were wrapping up final details on an agreement for the Chinese to buy up to 9 million tons of wheat and corn annually for three years. Says Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland: "This is an indication that the Chinese intend to be a major customer for U.S. exports...
Countering charges that new Nationalist employment policies intend to create a manageable African middle class as a buffer to working-class unrest, she says, "You can't very well create a middle class and not give them any rights, can you? And you can't go around and say [to the Blacks], 'Look you can have rights...
...city officials, who insist they have a valid contract with the union, said they would not reopen negotiations. "We just intend to sit down and listen to their problems; we will not begin to bargain again," City Manager James L. Sullivan said as he entered the meeting...