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...warning him against an invasion of Poland. Even if Reagan had not lain wounded, his official obligations would have been slight. One of those chores was rich with irony-Reagan formally proclaimed next Sunday the beginning of Victims' Rights Week. Said the country's most prominent criminal prey: "Only victims truly know the trauma crime can produce...
Reagan and Stockman come equipped with charts and graphs to support their arguments and their rhetoric, but the narrow vision of federally-controlled and industry-oriented policy might make them easy prey to the same mistaken hopes that led to the demise of the original liberal ideals the Great Society. The Democratic policy-makers of the past two decades found out they could not solve the problems of poverty and injustice in the country simply by throwing money at them. As their outlays to social programs grew, poor policy coordination and bureaucratic entanglements got in the way of meaningful progress...
...prevent unionization is not less than appalling. Reports indicate that the Coop has hired a union-busting consultant, perhaps paying him as much as $1000 a day for his expertise in intimidating workers. The store's front office has released a barrage of anti-union propaganda, all designed to prey on the fears and latent conservatism of the workers. A series of letters from the management to the workers outlining its opinions on the effect of voting in the union's favor contain no outright lies. Instead, they highly exaggerate the negative effects that unionization possibly entails and present...
...verbal intricacies that are his trademark fall prey to melodic ineptitude. Syllables lost in an overly complicated soprano line and choral numbers that have the gentility of a shouting match leave us frustrated. Though nearly always glittering, certain lyrics seem gratuitous as Hugh Wheeler's book parcels out plot in neat bits of dialogue. With such a story-laden vehicle, tangential songs become tiresome; we yearn for songs with more plot in them. Sondheim and Wheeler sensed this tendency for Sweeney to drag and judiciously chopped out half of an appallingly dull number in moving the show from New York...
...ships refused to help them, or Asian governments denied them haven. For 384,000 surviving boat people, there seemed to be no better prospect than interminable months in fetid "holding centers" in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong. Even today, the bobbing skiffs that still flee Viet Nam are prey to ruthless Thai pirates who rape the women and plunder the refugees' belongings - in one documented case, even the gold fillings from their teeth...