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Traditionally supporting the liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) on housing issues, but having won the Mayor's chair in January on the basis of conservative Independent support, Vellucci now seems confused about where he should lend his crucial swing vote on the divided council. Seems, however, is the key word here...
Coupled with the knowledge that Washington turns the other cheek to the training of counter-revolutionaries in Florida, direct U.S. efforts to tumble the government in Managua lend credibility to the Sandinistas' claim that the recent Nicaraguan military build-up is for defensive purposes. They also unnecessarily heighten tension in a region that has more than enough to spare...
...revolutionary fervor mounts high enough to lend credence to another program note on the play's history, which has become a theatrical legend: Originally written as a Federal Theater Project, Cradle was censored by its federal "employers," who refused to allow the actors to set foot on stage, so the pianist played while actors spoke the lines from their seats in the house. There are rough edges in this production, notably the awkward casting of Lars Gunnar-Wigemark as two very different characters in back-to-back scenes, and roughest among them remains the attempt to square things with...
...special worry is that, after years of inflation, recurrent recessions and punishingly high interest rates, some of the nation's biggest corporations are desperately short of cash. A prolonged recession could push several over the line into bankruptcy, possibly endangering the solvency of the financial institutions that lend to them and sending shock waves through the economy. Says Arthur Soter, a bank analyst at Morgan Stanley & Co.: "We are reaching a point where you could have serious cash-flow problems for some airlines, trucking and real estate firms, and heavy equipment manufacturers...
...prohibition, Kissinger notes, "our principal bargaining leverage was lost." As a result, an American proposal for a cease-fire in Cambodia was aborted-the Khmer Rouge had no need to negotiate for something that had already been handed to them by Congress-and Chou Enlai, who had agreed to lend China's weight to the proposal, was seriously embarrassed. The Chinese, says Kissinger, were "no longer sure of how steady or reliable a partner we would prove to be." Nonetheless, on Nov. 12, Mao again summoned Kissinger, along with two American colleagues and Chou, to a meeting...