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...caricature, simultaneously obvious and humorous, has never had a major role in Allen's films. Self-deprecatory references to his own Brooklyn Jewish background and jabs at rich WASPs have always been in Allen's repertoire. But a living, breathing one-liner presented as a major character seems a new creation; even Annie Hall was more real...
...country. The 21-member Military Council for National Salvation is largely a figurehead group. Instead, General Jaruzelski relies on a small kitchen cabinet of advisers. The government is rent by factionalism. Supporters of Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who is thought to be a liberal, and those of Party Hard-Liner Tadeusz Grabski take potshots at each other in the official press...
...policies are set down." Bignone's openness may clash with the tough views of Lieut. General Cristino Nicolaides, 57, who as army Commander in Chief acts as the true fount of authority. "It's difficult to make sense of a situation in which you have a hard-liner swearing in a moderate," reflects a diplomat in Buenos Aires...
...Israelis want a new Lebanese government dominated by the faction with which they feel most comfortable: the right-wing Christian Phalange, led by the Gemayel family. Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon, the hard-liner who planned and directed the sweep into Lebanon, has even envisaged turning the country into a Phalangist-controlled state. Other Israeli officials, however, are more flexible and see the necessity for forming a broad coalition of all significant Lebanese political groups?including the Muslim leftists led by Walid Jumblatt, head of the so-called National Movement, which has been loosely allied with the P.L.O...
...Invincible, made a rare and direct comment on the issue. Using the banquet at Windsor Castle for President Ronald Reagan as the occasion, she personally denounced "naked aggression" in the Falklands. In the port of Southampton, meanwhile, cheering Britons gave a rapturous welcome to her namesake, the Cunard luxury liner Queen Elizabeth 2, returning safely from the Falklands with 629 injured and wounded, plus crewmen from the lost British ships...