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...Javert, the righteous police inspector who hounds him across France for nearly two decades. Patti LuPone, an American who won a 1980 Tony Award for her starring role in Evita, has powerful scenes as an unwed mother who in desperation becomes a prostitute. The real star, however, is Nunn's staging. He sometimes spoils one effect with the hasty arrival of the next, but his conceptions are clear and simple. Almost every manifestation of evil, from Valjean's skulking emergence from prison to the army's brutal murder of a street urchin, takes place in gloom. The shadows...
Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is an ornery and outspoken conservative. Senator Sam Nunn of Georgia, the ranking Democrat on Armed Services, is a cool and circumspect moderate. In one way, the two men are very much alike: throughout their careers they have steadfastly supported the U.S. military...
...when Goldwater and Nunn stood up on the Senate floor last week and joined forces to attack the performance and structure of the military establishment, the shock waves rippled clear across the Potomac to the innermost rings of the Pentagon. In eight sharply worded speeches, the two Senators accused the military of endangering the nation's defense and squandering its assets with interservice bickering. If the U.S. has to go to war anytime soon, charged Goldwater, "these problems will cause Americans to die unnecessarily. Even more, they may cause us to lose the fight...
...coordinated assault by Goldwater and Nunn began two weeks ago, when they holed up at Fort A.P. Hill in the Virginia countryside with a battery of experts and other Senators to discuss what had gone wrong with the military. Among those present: former Defense Secretaries Harold Brown and James Schlesinger and General David Jones, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Drawing from this discussion and two years of study, the staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee will release a 600-page report this week calling for sweeping structural changes. The presidential commission chaired by Packard is expected...
...Joint Chiefs of Staff. In theory, the JCS is supposed to allow the Chiefs of the four services (the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines) to come together to shape military strategy. In fact, the Joint Chiefs have been unable to overcome age-old service rivalries. Explains Nunn: "They are called upon to do an almost impossible task--to represent their own services' viewpoint but simultaneously to sacrifice that view to the greater common good." Reforming the JCS has gained increasing backing on the Hill and from former top military officials...