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...officials involved in the preparations burst into the Oval Office. "There's been a serious incident with the space shuttle," said Vice President George Bush. National Security Adviser John Poindexter echoed what he had just heard on TV: "A major malfunction." Communications Director Pat Buchanan got to the point: "Sir, the shuttle has exploded." Reagan stood up. "How tragic," he said. Then he asked, "Is that the one the schoolteacher was on?" While NASA had proposed sending a private citizen into space, it was the President who had decided that a teacher should be first...
...heart of the controversy last week was the question of whether Thatcher was involved in leaking to the press a letter about the two bids. That letter, dated Jan. 6, was sent by Sir Patrick Mayhew, Britain's Solicitor-General, to Heseltine. In it, Mayhew urged Heseltine to correct "material inaccuracies" in his version of the ongoing battle. These had been contained in an earlier letter from the then Defense Minister to a representative of the European consortium...
...investigation into the leak by Thatcher's Cabinet secretary and head of the domestic civil service, Sir Robert Armstrong, showed that it had originated in the Prime Minister's own office. Faced with this damaging evidence, Thatcher last week told the House that it was Brittan's staff at the Trade and Industry Ministry that had actually leaked the letter. The investigation, she explained, had shown that the ministry aides "acted in good faith in the knowledge that they had the authority (of Brittan) and cover from my office for proceeding." As for her personal involvement, Thatcher insisted that...
...sister. But the rest of the all-star cast--including Hannah Schygulla, Laurence Olivier, Trevor Howard and Mel Ferrer--is lost in the pageantry. Edward Anhalt's script is flabby and inert, and history is contaminated with hokey invention (a bogus meeting in London, for instance, between Peter and Sir Isaac Newton...
...mammoth and soulless, with huge intestinal piping that snakes through every elegant living room and posh restaurant. Imagine that the amiable English temperament was forced to accommodate itself to totalitarianism, and you can anticipate the courtesy with which the riot squad goons knock our hero, Sam Lowry, unconscious ("Sorry, sir, regulations"). Slogans of the police state are everywhere: DON'T SUSPECT A FRIEND--REPORT HIM. And scrawled on a tenement wall is the most obscene graffito of all: REALITY...