Word: paramount
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Restoring freedom and democracy, explained President Reagan, were paramount objectives of American intervention. Consequently, Grenada Governor-General Paul Scoon's proclamation last Thursday to enact sweeping restrictions on personal and press freedoms surprised the Administration. Citing a 1968 "state of emergency" law, Scoon banned public meetings, allowed searches without warrant, and established measures to censor the press. Moreover, American troops have rounded up over a thousand Grenadian civilians suspected of sympathizing with slain Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. These detained Grenadians, questioned on their anti-Western beliefs and political activities, are kept in isolation cells under heavy guard. Relying on local...
Embarrassing? The Secretary of State certainly thought so. Filled in by phone last week while traveling to Japan with President Reagan, an irate George Shultz immediately ordered a full-scale investigation. Of paramount concern was not just how the security breach occurred, but how far it went: the State Department could not guarantee that every scrap of secret information had been recovered...
...PROBLEM? Simply this-the world is a big place. With a fixed number of ready ships, planes, and men, only a fixed piece of territory or ocean can be covered at any time. American policy makers must keep the paramount considerations uppermost in their planning. If United States forces ever find themselves spread too thinly, and a truly dangerous situation develops, then a real crisis could threaten the world. This point has not yet been reached, to the Administration's credit. But this week's events show the potential danger all too clearly...
This process will not stop with The Day After. Paramount already has a movie in the pipeline called Testament, about one family trying to survive a nuclear blast. One of the hottest commercial novels due next spring is Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, which shows America reeling from atomic desolation and California, intact and safe, effectively closed to the rest of the country. "There's a hell of a percentage increase in these day-after-nuclear scripts," says Michael Fuchs, president of Home Box Office's entertainment group. Apocalypse has clearly become something more than...
...Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, patent-leather-lunged idol, opened a three-week engagement at Manhattan's mammoth Paramount Theater, got the usual screaming reception from 30,000 bow-tied, bobby-soxed fans, who caused such a commotion that the Police Department responded with 421 policemen, 20 policewomen, 20 patrol cars, two trucks. The excitement had scarcely died down two days later, when an 18-year-old boy stood up in the theater, threw an egg that smacked Sinatra squarely between the eyes. The egger, Alexander Ivanovich Dorogo-kupetz, was mobbed by Sinatra's fans but rescued by police...