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This realization and Christina's perfervid protestations unleash tremors of repressed passion that stay, unsurprisingly, under wraps. The Abdication plumps for denial as the greatest good. Its real validity may be for movies like this. ∙Jay Cocks
...Perfervid Atmosphere. Despite Nixon's enhanced negotiating position and Brezhnev's hopeful prediction, the third Nixon-Brezhnev summit is likely to be the most difficult. Whatever the difficulties, some high U.S. officials believe that détente is imperative. Said one: "If détente comes apart, it could mean a ten-year hiatus." Arms control is the most profound issue facing the two leaders. Though détente enjoyed nearly universal approval a year ago, it is coming under increasing attack in the U.S. and other Western countries from an oddly mixed but powerful alliance of liberals and conservatives...
Understandable as they may be in today's perfervid Washington atmosphere, the fears of a sellout because of Watergate seemed excessive and simplistic. Defense Secretary James Schlesinger tried to counter such alarmism by noting loyally that "the President would do nothing intentionally that would damage the national security. The President is a visceral, instinctive patriot." Besides, anything that even looked like a sellout would crush his chances for political survival. The conservatives, most of them Southerners who are expected to provide his major support in a Senate trial if the House votes to impeach him, are also the ones...
...feet "like a leaf in the wind" into a blissful, totally unLiberated marriage. Curses never go beyond an impetuous hero's "God's teeth!" ("What a shocking remark!" exclaims the heroine.) Sex never gets further than a kiss, but manages to crop up in perfervid abundance anyway. (Flushed heroines protest, "No, I don't go in for promiscuous kissing.") And the ubiquitous third-person narrator wonders: "What on earth was the matter with her ... turning color just because Glyn Harney was now talking about ... beds...
SYRIA, MAJOR GENERAL MUSTAFA TLAS: This perfervid Arab patriot is Deputy Commander in Chief of the Syrian army as well as Defense Minister. Tlas, 45, has been an uncompromising opponent of any attempt at a negotiated settlement of the Middle East crisis. A believer in "people's war," and author of a book on guerrilla fighting, he was one of the first Syrian army regulars to give support to the Palestinian commandos in their war against King Hussein, with a brief but disastrous invasion of Jordan...