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...State Department also claimed that Alexander Haig's signature was forged on a letter of June 1979 to NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, which included a discussion of nuclear first-strike strategy and urged that an "action of a sensitive nature" be undertaken to "jolt the fainthearted in Europe." The letter contained a telltale error: it addressed Luns as "Dear Joseph," while Haig, a former NATO commander, would have written "Dear...
...G.O.P. Leader Robert Michel on Capitol Hill. "We pulled it off!" exulted Michel. "That's terrific," replied the President. Said Michel afterward: "At least we have really made a start." Indeed, simply by showing that it could agree in principle on a spending plan, Congress gave a jolt of confidence to the jittery U.S. economy. The Dow Jones industrial aver age shot up more than eleven points the day after the House budget passed. The long-term reaction of business leaders and financial markets remained unclear. Un less they become convinced that the Government's monetary and fiscal...
...losses in the Falkland Islands sobered the British public about the war. The excitement, tinged with jingoism, of the early days of the conflict was gone; the destruction of four warships of the Royal Navy was a jolt. Telegrams of sympathy from across Britain, and from Canada, Australia and the U.S., poured into Plymouth, home port of the Ardent and the Antelope. Lord Mayor Reg Scott said his city's mood was one of "grief tempered with determination...
...Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1964); of a heart attack; in Stockholm. Tormented by guilt for having escaped the Holocaust and convinced that the modern world had gone mad, Weiss, who was a naturalized Swedish citizen, created polemical works of intense graphic imagery meant to jolt audiences out of their complacency. In Marat/Sade he explored clashing views of society: De Sade's celebration of self-indulgence and individualism vs. French Revolutionary Marat's defense of mass killing for the good of mankind. In his later works, Weiss, an avowed Marxist, railed against the Viet...
...House Budget Committee Chairman Jim Jones. The impressive result: tentative agreement on a sweeping plan to reduce the projected 1983 deficit by billions through spending cuts, adjustments to the Social Security program and new taxes. If approved, the compromise would bring the deficit below $100 billion and possibly jolt wary financial markets into lowering the high interest rates that have been strangling hopes for an economic recovery. Only two officials have yet to approve the bipartisan package. Two very important officials: House Speaker Tip O'Neill and President Ronald Reagan...