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...Soviets, Europe could get on with peace and prosperity again. The European press was quick to applaud Leonid Brezhnev's surprise call for a U.S.-Soviet summit at the recent Soviet Party Congress and his subsequent letters to Western political leaders expressing his interest in arms limitation. In stark contrast, President Reagan is often portrayed as a reckless warmonger intent on bombing the Soviets "back to the Stone Age," as the West German weekly Stern recently...
...many ways it might have recalled the stark menace of a Goya tableau. The Deputies in Spain's 350-seat lower house were halfway through their vote on a new government when the heavy rococo doors of the Cortes, the country's parliament in the center of Madrid, burst open. In rushed a dozen armed attackers, most of them wearing olive drab parkas and blue jeans. In the marble corridors outside the chamber, some 200 uniformed men nervously fingered their weapons as they sealed off the exits. The invaders fired their submachine guns at the ceiling to drown...
...this stark, scalding and implacable drama, John Osborne draws up a balance sheet of a personal hell. His lawyer anti-hero Bill Maitland (Nicol Williamson) is "irredeemably mediocre," and incorrigibly self-destructive. He indulges in lacerating sado-masochistic diatribes, pops pills and suffers interminable hang overs. His joyless office liaisons sate only his lust, and he leaves his wife, mistress and daughter parched for love. In short, he is a mess, but he is the kind of mesmerizing mess that more men see in the shaving mirror in 1981 than did in 1965 when the play opened in New York...
...insurgency in El Salvador has I been transformed into a textbook case of indirect armed aggression by Communist powers." With that stark assertion, the Reagan Administration last week launched a carefully orchestrated campaign to demonstrate that the Soviet Union, Cuba, Viet Nam and other Communist nations have been smuggling arms to the leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. The Administration's motive is to win support for increased U.S. military aid to that strife-torn nation, and the intensity of the effort is stunning...
Theirs is an unappreciation for affirmative action that stands in stark contrast to other schools' outlooks. At the Woodrow Wilson School an assistant admissions director hotes that "all kinds of diversity make a university a richer place--in terms of minorities, or women, or foreign students, or whatever. At the Wilson School, we try to get as good a diversity of backgrounds as possible...