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...scare the corner cutters and punish the violators. Yet while the volume of traffic has exploded, the Reagan Administration's early budget cutting produced a reduction in the number of FAA inspectors from 1,748 to 1,494. Only in the past three years has the force been rebuilt to its present 1,813 inspectors...
Recent Met stagings -- notably Franco Zeffirelli's spacious La Boheme from 1981-82 and his Tosca, for which Rome was rebuilt, two seasons ago -- also have marooned their casts in movie sets. Presto: singing pygmies. Now comes this extravagant Fledermaus with singers who become a backup chorus to the brocade and the woodwork. Rosalinde (Soprano Kiri Te Kanawa) gets lost in the crowd during Orlofsky's drinking party in Act II, and the vengeful Dr. Falke (Baritone Michael Devlin) blends nicely with the patterned wallpaper and the potted ferns...
...linebacking corps looks solid, although the rest of the defense will have to be rebuilt...
Other investigative reporters on Weaver's rebuilt editorial team have written more than 40 stories in the past two years about pollution issues surrounding the state's powerful oil industry. Meanwhile Weaver has run a poignant series on the survival struggle by the state's Eskimos and launched a folk-adventure column that recently took readers on an open-boat whale hunt. Then last week he dropped a fresh bomb with a front-page scoop about MarkAir, an Anchorage-based airline. According to the News, the U.S. State Department paid Mark-Air to fly supplies to a Nicaraguan contra base...
American Presidents liked to use Harriman as their ambassador plenipotentiary. For Roosevelt, he helped maintain the often uneasy alliance with Stalin and Churchill during World War II. For Truman, he dealt with a cantankerous collection of European nations being rebuilt under the Marshall Plan. For Kennedy, he negotiated the Laos neutrality accords and the Limited Test Ban Treaty in 1963. For Johnson, he served as emissary to the Paris peace talks on Viet Nam in 1968. As late as 1976, when Harriman was 84, Democratic Presidential Nominee Jimmy Carter sent him to Moscow to give assurances to Leonid Brezhnev...