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...From the outset, the Pope wasted little time before plunging into polemics. Within eight hours of his rousing arrival at Manila International Airport, John Paul was feted at a formal reception in Malacanang Palace, the glittering presidential mansion. With the Marcoses seated stiffly at his side, he scolded the President in some of the sternest language that diplomacy admits. He said that he was pleased at "recent initiatives"-meaning the lifting of martial law-but proceeded to challenge the rationale upon which Marcos had built his strongman rule. "A legitimate preoccupation with the security of the state," warned the Pontiff...
Britain's economic condition is indeed worse in virtually every respect than when Thatcher took office. At the outset, she had said it would take 18 months to two years for results to show, but that timetable is nearly up and the turnaround is nowhere in sight. Inflation, 10% when the conservatives came in, is now 15%, though that is a considerable improvement from a high of 22% last summer. The gross national product has fallen from 1.5% growth in 1978-79 to a negative 3% for 1979-80. Some 10,000 businesses went bankrupt, a record. Unemployment climbed...
Tasty Meadows is the setting of Lily Tomlin's latest vehicle The Incredible Shrinking Woman, a movie which, at its outset, promises to be a wicked satire of the TV age, filled with subtle humor, razor-sharp ridicule of American pop culture, and ingenious manipulation of every tiny comic detail of insipid domestic life. Unfortunately, Shrinking Woman--in its last half hour--reneges on its tacit deal with the audience, degenerating from incisive social satire to the silly comedy-adventure shenanigans of a Gene Wilder--Richard Pryor movie. Director Joel Schumacher and scriptwriter Jane Wagner let the film slowly slide...
...Latino, the Park Plaza sales executive who arranged the accommodations for the Model U.N. this year, said at the outset of the convention that he did not anticipate any problems with the group and that he "wasn't aware of the problems at the Sheraton...
Harvard started the meet on the right note with a pin by Captain Rick Kief 28 seconds into the second period of the first match. Kief dominated Sean Ryan of Plymouth State after a quick takedown at the outset of the first period, and an outside cradle by Kief in the second put Ryan on his back and gave the Crimson its first decision of the season...