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Manon of the Spring is like a child's fairy tale. It's simple and hearty, and though its enduring sadness prevents it from warming the cockles of its audience's heart, it is certain to leave even the sternest critic with a feeling of satisfaction...
...insurgency. The President then announced that she had appointed Deputy Defense Minister Rafael Ileto, a West Point graduate and former Ambassador to Iran and Thailand, to succeed Enrile. Said the President: "I hereby give notice to all those who may be inclined to exploit the present situation that the sternest measures will be taken against them if they...
...something politicians ( hardly ever do willingly. Not unexpectedly, a bill to impose strict limits on PAC participation has languished in Congress for a year. Last week, to the surprise of even the bill's sponsors, the measure emerged and was approved by the Senate, 69 to 30, with its sternest rules intact...
...walking from her residence to a television interview in her garden. Now, declared Home Minister S.B. Chavan, "a coordinated, well- planned operation has been launched to terrorize, to create fear in the minds of citizens and to disrupt communal peace and harmony." The government, he said, would take "the sternest measures" to restore peace and order...
Syndicated Columnist Patrick Buchanan has been one of the Reagan Administration's sternest critics from the right. He has taken a harder line than the President on arms control, and described a modest jobs bill backed by Reagan as part of "a series of calculated maneuvers to soften the image of Mr. Conservative into Mr. Conciliation." Buchanan has been even more suspicious of his colleagues in the press: as a White House speechwriter from 1969 to 1974, he crafted some of Vice President Spiro Agnew's most caustic attacks on the news media. In a column last year Buchanan described...