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...spied for the Soviets for some 30 years. While working as an economist at NATO's Paris headquarters from 1956 to 1961, he allegedly gave the Soviets copies of more than 80 NATO documents carrying the "cosmic" designation, NATO'S highest security classification. The consequence, Attorney General Sir Michael Havers told London's Old Bailey criminal court, could only have been "exceptionally grave damage" to the alliance...
...deed was done so swiftly and so unexpectedly that rumors still linger in Australia about what really happened. From the day in November 1975 when Governor-General Sir John Kerr sacked Prime Minister Gough Whitlam of the leftist Labor Party and replaced him with Opposition Leader Malcolm Fraser of the Liberal Party, allegations have surfaced that the CIA had a hand in Whitlam's fall. In an article entitled "Dateline Australia: America's Foreign Watergate?" published this week in the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy, University of Delaware Political Scientist James A. Nathan retraces those accusations and other charges...
...Sir Richard Attenborough's film (which runs over three hours) is itself the product of an unflagging will; it took him more than 20 years to finance and mount it (cost: about $22 million). In the circumstances it would be a pleasure to report that his directorial skill matched his producer's zeal, but Attenborough's style is traditional-stately. His imagery of the Indian landscape has a conventional handsomeness that is more predictable then enlivening. His staging of the many and brutal confrontations between Gandhi's followers and their official oppressors is competent and craftsmanlike...
After his Wednesday night speech in the Science Center on Selective Service, General Turnage invited dozens of questions by pointing his finger and saying "Yes. Sir." He never said "Yes, Ma'am" because he didn't call on any women. This is the question I never got to ask: "General, you say that nine million registered men are more than enough to fight a war. If only white men and women were drafted, they would probably be enough too, but Selective Service registration doesn't discriminate explicitly with regard to skin color. Why then does...
Interviewer: Of course, you went on to write the masterpieces of Otello and Falstaff, so your Shakespearean credentials are well in order. And Sir Peter, director of Britain's National Theater, obviously knows the Bard. His staging is almost cinematic in spots, using dissolves from one scene to another and staging a climactic final battle in stop action. What advice did you give...