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...with a lunchtime crowd of actors desperately vying with one another for the attention of a powerful producer, and a party where a White House staffer learns how power politics works when it leaves D.C. for L.A. Carpenter does these set pieces so well that he sometimes forgets to nail down Larson's character firmly enough...
...released by Washington's Brookings Institution this fall concluded that "the significance of Soviet armed forces as a tool of diplomacy has loomed larger." Harvard Political Scientist Samuel Huntington agrees, noting that "detente has been dying for a very long time. What we are witnessing now is the final nail being driven into the coffin." Says Duke University Political Scientist Ole Holsti: "The invasion of Afghanistan has driven home the fact, more than anything since World War II, that whatever the Soviets mean by detente, or anything else, they are prepared to take hard action where they view the opportunity...
Economist Charles L. Schultze unwittingly hit the nail on the head [Nov. 19] when he referred to the "missing recession. It's out there somewhere, but nobody can find it." Our economic "advisers," who need to justify their self-fulfilling prophecies, will surely keep on trying until they do. Barbara J. Robbins Old Greenwich, Conn...
...fact, only after 107 minutes did the Terriers finally manage to pull out in front of the Crimson and capture a nail-biting overtime victory...
...arguments to those that had been heard many times. Paul Nitze, former SALT negotiator and perhaps the nation's leading SALT critic, sounded his usual warning that the enormous throw-weight (the capacity of a ballistic missile to deliver a payload) allowed the Soviet Union would "tend to nail down a dangerous strategic imbalance." He urged the Senate to postpone consideration of the treaty until the U.S. has strengthened its strategic forces. But the normally hawkish Armed Services Committee chairman, Mississippi Democrat John Stennis, replied that the Senate has devoted too much time to SALT to set it aside...