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Taking command when sea trials get under way next week will be Michael Stalzer. He used to alternate with former skipper Joseph Hazelwood. The ship's new assignment has nothing to do with blotting out memories of the spill, explained Gus Elmer, president of Exxon Shipping Co. Production from Alaskan oil fields continues to decline, and there is no longer any need for the 987- ft. tanker on the West Coast...
...keep going out there and battle. We've got to believe that we can win." But the most striking thing about managers is their preternatural awareness that they have less job security than the East German government. "Every manager's job is in jeopardy," says Houston Astros skipper Art Howe, who is in enough jeopardy to be a contestant on the TV game show. "Managers are hired to be fired...
...protest has been growing steadily. Last month 250,000 rallied in Tel Aviv to denounce the political system; this week protesters plan to hold a mass demonstration at the Knesset. Says lawyer Eliad Shraga, who has been staging a vigil outside Herzog's house in Jerusalem: "We need a skipper who will take us to the left or to the right." Otherwise, he fears, "we will reach a state of anarchy...
...retired Navy admiral had walked the gangplank for his skipper in the 1987 congressional hearings, insisting that "the buck stops with me" in the Iran-contra affair. But once he faced trial on five charges of destroying documents and lying to Congress, John Poindexter switched signals and called Ronald Reagan as his star witness to share some responsibility for the Administration's secret policies to sell arms to Iran and assist the Nicaraguan contras. The former President failed to help his loyal National Security Adviser. Confused, forgetful and oblivious to the public record, Reagan would not even concede that Congress...
...center of the story is their younger son Brick, a football hero turned alcoholic who is mourning his lost youth, the fading of his athletic prowess and, above all, the death of his best friend Skipper, whose devotion to Brick was deeply, if never explicitly, sexual. In some interpretations, Brick is unquestionably homosexual himself. In others, his rage at his wife Maggie stems from her having forced him to confront an uncomfortable truth about his friend. Daniel Hugh Kelly splits the difference. His Brick unmistakably was capable of physical love with Skipper; just as unmistakably, he remains capable of physical...