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Finally there is the Margot Fonteyn problem. She was an incandescent Princess Aurora, and when she appeared in the role during the Sadler's Wells Ballet's American tour in 1949, she stole the nation's heart, sending thousands of youngsters to the barre. There are no Fonteyns available right now, no one with her ineffable mix of youthful poetry, gaiety and ever so ladylike sexiness. Still, audiences and critics alike, including many people who surely cannot have seen Fonteyn in the role, continue to compare all other interpretations with hers. So what is a ballet troupe...
Probers suspect that former CIA Director William Casey played a dominant role in Iranscam, despite his proclaimed ignorance of the scheme. Casey, who underwent surgery for a brain tumor last December, resigned in January, and his physicians have maintained that he is unfit to testify. The lawmakers plan to send their own doctor to examine Casey and report on whether he is capable of delivering testimony. One investigator justifies this step by explaining that if Casey does not talk "we may never know" the extent of CIA involvement in the scandal...
...interservice glory sharing, only 36 minutes after the Marines landed at Pearls airport, the rival Army Rangers parachuted onto the airstrip at the other end of the island at Point Salines. It was a successful operation, and the Marines did themselves proud, but it raised questions about their unique role as the nation's elite amphibious strike force. And fairly or not, the Iranian arms fiasco has been partly associated with the gung-ho "Marine mind-set" of Oliver North and the command-and-control system of former Marines Robert McFarlane and Donald Regan...
Aside from Grenada, the last time the Marines launched an amphibious assault under combat conditions was during the Korean War, when General Douglas MacArthur chose them for the Inchon landing. Marine strategists insist that the Corps retains a vital role in modern warfare. Lieut. General Alfred Gray, who commands the Fleet Marine Force (Atlantic), admits, "You'll never see staged assaults like Iwo Jima or Tarawa again." But Gray, who is thought to be one of the leading candidates to succeed Marine Commandant P.X. Kelley, adds, "Our mission is sustained power projection. For power to be sustained, it must come...
Other branches of the service are trying to mimic or duplicate the role of the Marine Corps by imitating its fast-and-flexible style; the Army, for example, is developing lightly equipped divisions for quick deployment. Even more disturbing are signs that the Marines have begun to imitate some of the top-heavy characteristics of the other services: 30 years ago there was one enlisted Marine officer for every two grunts; now the ratio is 1 to 1. Less than one-third of the troops in each Marine division now have combat jobs, and the ratio of desk jobs...