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...picking up support, the Administration is backing a resolution originally proposed by Democrat Sam Nunn of Georgia and co-sponsored by Republican John Warner of Virginia. The details were worked out at Warner's Georgetown home with Presidential Aides James Baker, Richard Allen and Edwin Meese. The Nunn-Warner Resolution, which is backed by 24 other Senators, would place general restrictions on the use of any exported AWACS. Among them: no third country would have access to the technology or the information gathered without U.S. consent, all data must be continuously shared with the U.S., and the planes would...
...going to win," a top aide to the President exulted as he watched the Senators changing their minds. "I feel good about it for the first time." But it will not be that easy for the Administration. As Georgia's Nunn put it: "Until now they've been lost in their own end zone. Now they're finally on the playing field. But it's still a long, long way to score." - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Douglas Brew and Johanna McGeary/ Washington
since 1968?and director of the current smash London musical Cats?visited the U.S.S.R. "The director of the Gorky Theater told me that for the next six months his company would be working on the Pickwick Papers," Nunn, 41, recalls. "It emerged that such large-scale adaptations of Dickens are commonplace in Soviet theater. In a sense, that shamed me into it." The following year, inflation devoured much of the R.S.C.'s government grant (the company receives almost 40% of its approximately $12 million budget from the Arts Council). It could afford to stage only one additional new work instead...
...Nunn and Co-Director John Caird, 33, decided on Nicholas Nickleby and commissioned Playwright David Edgar, 33, to write the adaptation. Edgar, whose Destiny was produced at the Aldwych in 1977 and whose Mary Barnes was staged at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater last year, recalls that "it was a twofold challenge: to convert a rambling, complexly plotted novel into a play in a few months, and to respond to ideas from the two directors, from Designer John Napier, from Composer Stephen Oliver and all those actors." Working communally?an R.S.C. tradition exemplified by Peter Brook's 1970 production...
...spring of 1980 Nunn was unsure whether the production could go ahead. "There was a script for Play I, but Play II was a morass. So John Caird and I went away to a hotel renowned for its good food. I figured we'd run out of time, but John argued vehemently that we could still do it. We were sitting at a table for two, our voices rising in the middle of this exclusive restaurant. We must have resembled nothing so much as two gays who'd gone away for the weekend to sort out their relationship." Nunn...