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...tentative cease-fire. Not a bad week for a man who, if the State Department handed out speeding tickets to freebooting statesmen, would have spent much of his 34-year-career in traffic court. His style places him in the ranks of troubleshooters like Philip Habib and Richard Armitage, whose authority derives not from their titles but from their willingness to operate in the highly volatile, here's-the-deal-dammit world of eyeball-to-eyeball diplomacy. The formula is simple: earn the trust of the principals, talk straight and cut the best deal you can; then tell the boss...
...idealist, he is democratic man at his best. And a commander of steely resolve. Almost out of ammunition, unable to withstand another Confederate charge, he mounts a bayonet assault of his own, downhill and through heavy woods (in the film's best combat sequence). Finally, there is the late Richard Jordan's Armistead, the film's great romantic, haunted by the fact that he must meet his best friend in battle -- haunted too by his unrequited love for the man's wife. ''Virginians! Who will go with me!'' he cries, rushing to his gallant doom. All these performances are touched...
...Richard Price, Executive Producer Porgy and Bess Chief Executive Officer Primetime Television London
...negotiate, there is no mystery about the basic ingredients of a framework agreement that Reagan and Gorbachev could sign this year or next. They are evident to both advocates and opponents of arms control within the Administration. That is why the opponents, led by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Richard Perle, have been waging a fierce but largely invisible campaign to put the kibosh on the arms-control agreements of the past lest they provide the basis for new agreements in the future. Last month this faction won a major victory against Shultz and the State Department by persuading Reagan...
...abortion. Thomas Wade Moore Dallas I have been intrigued with Cuomo since his keynote speech at the '84 convention, when I considered him to have presidential potential. Now I am not so sure. Do we want another President who, like Jimmy Carter, cannot delegate responsibility or who, like Richard Nixon, reacts to criticism by feeling that he is under siege? Do we want a President who considers political conflicts to be personal affronts and responds with physical intimidation, as Lyndon Johnson sometimes did? These may be attributes of past Presidents, but presidential attributes they are not. Ward R. Hitt White...