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...announcement was a devastating political blow for Reagan, all but ending his last, best hope for recovering from a string of setbacks that have left him, with 15 months remaining in his term, not just a lame duck but a crippled one. One after another, his major goals for this fall have gone aglimmering: the appointment of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court, the hope to win renewed funding for the contras in Nicaragua, and his aim of pushing through a budget plan that would protect defense spending without raising existing taxes or imposing new ones. The stock-market plunge...
...niche for Reagan as a national political teacher during his final year requires that the President have a secure platform from which to lecture. Baker must show that his nonconfrontational approach can produce results that will prevent the White House from becoming nothing more than a stagnant pond for lame ducks...
...confused signals transmitted from Washington. Now most Central Americans feel that, one way or another, they must keep the peace momentum going. The increasing determination of U.S. allies to pursue their own interests without reference to Washington suggests that Reagan's friends have begun to see him as a lame duck. That perception comes on top of long-standing nervousness about the U.S. commitment to its allies, a fear fueled by the American example set in recent decades in Cuba, Viet Nam and Lebanon. "The U.S. has no long-term policies anywhere," says a contra official. "If the problem...
...have appeared in every episode. John Glen, who has helmed the past four films, is just the fifth director in the series. The Bond team hit its early peak with Goldfinger in 1964 and followed up with some snazzy films (Thunderball, The Spy Who Loved Me) and a few lame ones (You Only Live Twice, The Man with the Golden Gun). Eventually, the pictures were faithful only to the titles of Fleming's novels and stories; now each screenplay was an original endeavor. But the basic Bond recipe was merely stirred, not shaken: Do it over, do it bigger, 'cause...
...recovery from the doldrums inflicted by a triple whammy last November: the uproar over his sale of U.S. arms to terrorist Iran, his failure to keep the Senate in Republican hands, and his almost automatic reduction, once the final midterm elections of his presidency were behind him, to lame-duck status...