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Weinberger: I don't think, sir, there will be. Registration seems to be, first of all, not particularly onerous. It doesn't seem to be particularly...well, it's not as effective as...I think if we're going to do registration we should get more information as part of the registration process. But there doesn't seem to be any particular opposition to it, and it would save time on mobilization, if need be, and to that extent provides a good additional argument why we don't need the draft...
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe had barely finished addressing the packed House of Commons when an avalanche of outrage and derision descended. "A catastrophe of the first order for the British people," sputtered Opposition Leader Michael Foot. "Fundamentally wrong in concept and maladroit in detail," complained a fellow Conservative M.P., Peter Tapsell. Said London's staid Financial Times: "An admission of defeat by the government." Blared the tabloid Sun: "Howe it hurts...
...ground that "no one is allowed to demonstrate here, because Spain is in mourning [over terrorism]." After his arrest in 1978 for participating in a plot to overthrow the government, he sent a revealing open letter to King Juan Carlos in which he urged: "What we need, Sir, is a good and agile antiterrorist law. We must silence those apologists for this bloody farce [terrorism], even if they are parliamentarians...
...rescue the Donatello, attempts on his life and gory efforts to derail Harrigan's shenanigans. He is assisted by an American pop economist, a rumbustious Boston newspaper editor, a skirt-chasing Turkish prof, a Swinburne-spouting I.R.A. turncoat, a high-level Treasury official with the unlikely name of Sir Olaf McConnochie - and the admirable Alyss. Though Davey's novels tend to be more whosaidits than whodunits, Treasury offers alarums and excursions aplenty...
...been an Oxford don, a Foreign Office functionary and spokesman for the Treasury, and is as volubly at home in the fleshpots of North America as he is among the ar cane outer reaches of literature, music and art. It is no secret that Ambrose Usher is modeled on Sir Isaiah Berlin, the high-wattage Oxford intellectual, government adviser and nonstop conversationalist. Sir Isaiah is 71. The ebullient Ambrose, of course, has the fictional hero's privilege of suspended birthdays. Or else cloak and mortarboard are more potent rejuvenators than powdered rhino horn. Only Alyss knows...