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...Reagan considers organizing his Administration around an "executive committee" composed of key Cabinet Secretaries and other top officials, he poses three problems that would have to be solved if the complicated system were to work in the bureaucratic maze of the Federal Government that persists no matter which party is in power. First: Who will coordinate the work of the executive committee? Second: Who will coordinate the work of the White House staff-always a force of its own? Third: Will the two coordinators be able to work together without succumbing to the overt, or subtle, struggles for power...
...changes proposed would especially help us in our administration of patent matters," Stephen H. Atkinson '67, executive secretary of the University committee on patents and copyrights, said yesterday. "With all of the conflicting federal policies we are now working in a maze of bureaucratic detail," he added...
...increasing isolation from the Catholic populace that once welcomed its activities, the I.R.A. is still able to exploit one cause that wins sympathy even from those who do not condone its violent methods: the notorious H-blocks (the term comes from the cell-block configuration) of Ulster's Maze Prison. I.R.A. convicts in the H-blocks have long protested a 1976 ruling that reduced the status of new inmates from something akin to prisoners of war to that of ordinary criminals. The "dirty protesters," as they have been called, refuse to wash, wear blankets instead of inmates' garb...
...middle-aged and stout, and his adulterous wife has bedded down with just about every man he knows, including Bill Haydon (Ian Richardson), one of the four candidates for Mole. Yet as Alec Guinness plays him, Smiley seems wholly real, a man who has walked through a maze of distorting mirrors for so long that he sees life as a series of untrustworthy reflections...
...times the chase through this maze is needlessly confusing; it is often hard to tell past from present. A pity, because everything else in the program demonstrates lapidary craftsmanship. Producer Jonathan Powell, Adapter Arthur Hopcraft and Director John Irvin are like glypticians bent on chiseling one perfect series for TV. Hopcraft has retained Le Carré's spare style, which is as tightly drawn as a violin string. It can convey almost as many tones, and it is wonderful to hear what talented performers can do with those laconic, loaded sentences...