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...Company. Like all Guare's plays, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun deals with ordinary people's inability to accept ordinariness, their yearning for mythic and epic significance. But it thwarts itself by hanging its plot on a somber and respectful treatment of the abrupt sexual infatuation and love-suicide pact of a pair of 13-year-olds. Shakespeare could bring it off in Verona. In Guare's rural Sicily, it seems mere wind. Mae West couldn't make it worse, and Richard Burbage couldn't make it better...
...trade: Bush took steps to open world markets, including a free trade pact with Canada and Mexico and the liberalization of global trading rules. Heading into the year, he took a tougher stance with Japan on its trade imbalance with the U.S. But his mission to Tokyo with U.S. chief executives was widely viewed as a bust...
...collapse ((of communism)) coming and he pushed it -- hard." During the first half of 1982, a five-part strategy emerged that was aimed at bringing about the collapse of the Soviet economy, fraying the ties that bound the U.S.S.R. to its client states in the Warsaw Pact and forcing reform inside the Soviet empire. Elements of that strategy included...
...Financial aid to Warsaw Pact nations calibrated to their willingness to protect human rights and undertake political and free-market reforms...
According to U.S. intelligence sources, the Pope had already advised Walesa through church channels to keep his movement operating underground, and to pass the word to Solidarity's 10 million members not to go into the streets and risk provoking Warsaw Pact intervention or civil war with Polish security forces. Because the communists had cut the direct phone lines between Poland and the Vatican, John Paul II communicated with Jozef Cardinal Glemp in Warsaw via radio. He also dispatched his envoys to Poland to report on the situation. "The Vatican's information was absolutely better and quicker than ours...