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Weinberger: I justify it because it's necessary. I think we've fallen far behind in our defense expenditures--not expenditures per se, but in our defensive strength. Any briefing on a comparative basis of our strength and Soviet strength, either in conventional or strategic forces, brings us out, I think, in a very inferior position, and it's very dangerous to stay in an inferior position without trying to do something to redress that balance. We have to do quite a lot and do it quickly, because there is along lead time before you can improve your situation. That...
...saying about Salvador Cayetano: "His eyes, they are hard. I wouldn't like to be his prisoner." This gives the impression that I am a supporter of the inhuman junta in San Salvador against which Cayetano is courageously fighting. The opposite is true. I was not criticizing Señor Cayetano but describing what I believe to be the result of the imprisonment and cruel torture he has suffered...
...Mamelles fares better. The barbed wire is pushed off into a corner, and the sets are Dufy-bright and lively. The story, a gutsy farce that Poulenc took from a drama by Apollinaire, concerns a fed-up woman named Thérèse (Soprano Catherine Malfitano) who decides to quit the second sex by removing her breasts-really two bright balloons. Meanwhile, her husband (Baritone David Holloway) assumes female dress and godlike fecundity; in a day he/she produces 40,049 offspring. Eventually both resume their original genders and celebrate the need to repopulate the world after war. Among Hockney...
...Although for the most part, Wolf's style succeeds in evoking a feeling for the vicissitudes of memory, the lack of focus is often frustrating, and ultimately detracts from the book's power. Unlike other autobiographies, the author claims no inherent literary value in the author's childhood per se, thus the insignificance of many of the memories becomes cloying. The attempt to focus on the memory of the childhood, rather than the childhood itself, creates a problem of focus that Wolf never adequately resolves. The book never succeeds in striking a balance between accuracy and impact...
...Friedersdorf, chief of congres sional liaison. Brady wants Reagan to drop into the press room later that day to help publicize the release of an Administration "audit" of the state of the economy. Reagan readily agrees. Friedersdorf tells Reagan that Congress will again postpone the proposed pay increase for se nior Government officials. "That's too bad," Reagan remarks. "I guess it has to be, under the circumstances...