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...diplomat in El Salvador, "that we were not supporting genuine anti-Communists but feudalists or worse." Last month Reagan exercised a pocket veto of the two-year-old human rights certification law, which had obliged him to certify twice a year that El Salvador was making headway against the quasi-official terrorism...
...Lost, commissioned by the Lyric Opera of Chicago, was the victim of a turgid production that obscured the work's many beauties. Messiaen's Saint François-which resembles no other work in the operatic literature as much as it resembles Paradise Lost in its static, quasi-oratorio quality- is more fortunate all around...
...quasi-monopoly, however, was always an uncomfortable arrangement. The company wanted to get into related fields like computers when they began developing; other firms were eager to enter the phone business; and the Government was worried by the size and power of the telephone giant. In a far-reaching decision, the FCC in 1968 allowed a Texas firm to sell a device called a Carterfone, which connected mobile radios to AT&T lines. It was the first time any non-Bell product had ever won the right to be wired into the Bell System and was the first electronic breach...
...should anyone care about this? Many people might assume that the press was protesting against its exclusion out of a prurient or even commercial itch, annoyed at missing some sensational headlines and pictures. That is simply not the case. The press has a serious quasi-constitutional function as a representative of the public. Obviously the White House or the Pentagon remembered the Viet Nam "livingroom war" and the revulsion it created. Obviously they admired and envied Margaret Thatcher's dealing with the press during the Falklands invasion, when the Iron Lady's government allowed only a small contingent...
...fact, in areas where applied social science research could improve the coherence of domestic or foreign policy, the conditions of scholarship were often approved, so that in the relative vacuum of Brezhnev's final years successful academian burcaucrats, like Primakov, were able to turn themselves and their institutes into quasi-formal political advisers of the Central Committee of the Central Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU...