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...pull a rabbit out of the hat a la Kissinger. This Secretary of State is not putting on Kissinger's fedora." On Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington's reluctance to commit Britain to participation in a peace-keeping force for the Sinai: "Duplicitous bastard. European friends -just plain cowardly. British, lying through their teeth...
...similarities to earlier triumphant trips to Mexico and Poland, there were inescapable differences. The Pontiff looked older and drawn, with an occasional hint of feebleness. And as the cordons of security police mingling with crowds made all too plain, it was impossible to forget the gunfire in St. Peter's Square. Indeed, soon after the trip started, West German police picked up Turkish Terrorist Omer Ay, who is suspected of having been an accomplice in the assassination attempt. There was reason for concern near at hand. Nigeria's official news agency reported the arrest of four people...
...compromise plain approved two weeks later avoided quotes, but faculty members quickly made it clear they weren't enthused about it either. This plan allowed four-fifths of the applicants to he judged without regard to race and the other one-fifth chosen later. The Review would consider the minority status of applicants In the second pool if the racial mix of the earlier group proved in balance. The reason for the continuing faculty misgivings; professors felt the weight put on minority status would undermine the publication's traditional "meritocratic" selection process and place a stigma on minority editors...
Glemp, 53, the plain-spoken son of an Inowroclaw salt miner, is well prepared for that task. The holder of doctorates in Roman and canon law, he has a shrewd political sense that belies his squat, jug-eared physical appearance. Glemp apparently intends to pursue a cautious policy under martial law, putting moral pressure on the regime but avoiding inflammatory gestures that might incite violence and provoke a Soviet invasion...
...million "science fantasy adventure" must seem like pulling the leg of a museum dinosaur-an unfairly anarchic response to an enterprise so painstaking, so educational, so forthrightly solemn. Director Annaud even recruited Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape) to devise appropriate gestures for the actors, and Anthony Burgess (Language Made Plain) to create primitive dialects, all heavy on the grunts and gutturals. But jokes will come, especially since Quest for Fire emerges less than a year after Caveman, a goofy romp through prehistory that managed to supply the punch lines to many of Quest's earnest questions. Annaud...