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Graeme Campbell rants nicely as the bragging toper Pistol, whose tavern cronies Bardolph and Nym are sharply limned by Raymond Skipp and Norman Allen. (These two double as the soldiers who converse with the disguised king in a night scene far too brightly lit by Marc B. Weiss.) Aideen O'Kelly is a passable Mistress Quickly and a better Queen of France...
...heart's in it." Other observers, however, are convinced that the full Socialist program?including nationalizations?will be carried out. "Many Frenchmen doubt Mitterrand's socialism and think that since he no longer needs the Communists, he'll behave as a moderate and govern at the center-left," says Raymond Aron. "I think these skeptics are wrong and insult the President." The President himself supported that view last week, vowing publicly to "fulfill all my promises...
What the Socialists really promise is not so much a "new economic order" as a shift in priorities: the campaign against unemployment will now take precedence over Giscard's preoccupation with inflation fighting. Meanwhile, the new government has acted capably and responsibly on the monetary front, continuing ex-Premier Raymond Barre's efforts to shore up the sagging franc...
...nowhere in this hemisphere are there so many people so poor as in Haiti (pop. 6 million; per capita income, less than $300), and thus so eager to scrape together as much as $1,500 for the trip to Florida. The passage is usually unpleasant, sometimes fatal. Raymond Antoine, 46, is a Krome Avenue North inmate who spent five weeks in a small boat with 148 fellow Haitians. Asked why he persevered, he said, "Misė, miseė [Poverty, poverty!] My eight children are starving. I have to get work, money to feed them from here...
...first week of the new Administration, only one of President Reagan's Cabinet officers remained unconfirmed: Labor Secretary-designate Raymond Donovan. A Senate committee still had questions about some allegedly dubious dealings of the Schiavone Construction Co.; Donovan was executive vice president and part owner of the firm. The FBI reported to the panel that it had developed information, which it could not confirm, that the New Jersey company's upper management was "closely aligned with organized crime...