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These are among the dramatic moments described by Kissinger in this final installment of TIME's excerpts from his forthcoming memoirs, White House Years. Kissinger muses on the statesman's craft ("Competing pressures tempt one to believe that an issue deferred is a problem avoided; more often it is a crisis invited"); assesses Charles de Gaulle, the Shah of Iran, Golda Meir and Yitzhak Rabin; and sums up the philosophy that he believes should guide U.S. foreign policy. He concludes with a moving essay on the role of faith in a technocratic...
...cadaver should ever endure what Sellars does to the Dogberry/Verges scenes--his chopping reduces them from a major element of the play's structure to mere comic relief. It's tempting to look at them that way, of course, and in the uncut script their scenes do go on forever. But as with all of Shakespeare's plot problems that tempt foolhardy directors to cut and re-order, this one had a point...
...conventional war in the future will most likely be relatively short. Thus the need for masses of troops is just not there. The proposed programs would cost over $50 billion; for much money the Volunteer Army could be made more attractive. Also the presence of thousands more troops could tempt politicians into engaging in adventurous interventions around the globe. Morally, the prospect of rights removed, liberties taken away, and slave-like labor is repellant...
...have little if any oil of their own and seem willing to pay any price for supplies. As Nazih was speaking, a tanker was reportedly loading 300,000 tons of crude at Iran's Kharg Island for Japan at the new, extortionate price. The easy sale could well tempt other producing nations to post similar price increases in the days ahead...
...that simply. No Len Deighton plot ever does. In his unraveling, the au thor of The Ipcress File and Funeral in Berlin produces a series of memorable set pieces. In one celebrating German-Soviet Friendship Week (Hitler had decided not to invade the Soviet Union), there is an at tempt to disinter the bones of Marx from his Highgate resting place for reburial in Mother Russia; old Karl gets no closer to Moscow than he did in his lifetime...