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After his celebrated indiscretions in the Atlantic last November, it was assumed that David Stockman had committed suicide by pen. Indeed, the Administration's star statistician and masterful Director of the Office of Management and Budget lowered his profile practically to the point of invisibility. He refused all requests for interviews and appeared on Capitol Hill only at closed-door sessions to negotiate the "final" 1982 budget package...
Though Soviet-Vietnamese relation are basically solid, there are signs of stress. A Soviet request last June to assume management of Vietnamese development projects was denied. A more serious conflict occurred in December when the Vietnamese booted Pen Sovan, general secretary of Kampuchea's Communist Party, from the government, apparently for trying to chart a political course independent of Viet Nam. The Soviet Ambassador in Hanoi made his displeasure known at the government New Year's party by refusing to take his designated seat next to Foreign Minister Hun Sen. A long, embarrassing silence followed, until a quick...
...including reduced censorship and access to the state broadcasting networks for the unions and the church. At a nationally televised ceremony, where strikers and government representatives stood side by side and sang the Polish national anthem, Walesa signed what became known as the Gdansk agreement with a giant souvenir pen bearing the likeness of John Paul...
...ashtrays. Always provocative, usually amusing and sometimes shocking, Wesselmann's work reflects America's amorous obsessions. In his windy and erratic assessment, "Critic" Slim Stealingworth tends to overvalue the artist's impact on his age. That is to be expected. Stealingworth, after all, is the pen name of none other than the prolific Wesselmann...
...drawings, Alex W Davis, 2, pointed and said, "Snoopy." Although he failed to identify the fat and sassy Garfield, the toddler was eerily on target in another respect. His dad, Jim Davis, 36, who created Garfield, always dreamed of becoming the next Charles Schulz. Davis wanted to pen a cartoon animal as captivating and popular as Schulz's canine flying ace and his pals in the Peanuts comic strip. That fantasy is fast approaching fact...