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...Haig took the lead in discussions about El Salvador after the new Administration was inaugurated. This was the place to try to halt Soviet adventurism, he argued. Some White House advisers-including top Aides James Baker and Edwin Meese-were initially reluctant to initiate a highly visible foreign policy thrust while the Administration was trying to focus attention on its economic program. But they succumbed to the argument, put by one top presidential aide: "You can't abdicate the conduct of foreign policy no matter what the domestic priorities...
...fiesty couple is soon thrust into the world of international espionage--naturally through the old device of being caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. The good-guy secret agents (led by the poker-faced Marcel Bozzuffi) promise to protect Renato and Albin from the bad-guy agents so long as they help them obtain some mysterious microfilm. Molinaro treats us to more than 90 minutes of car chases, dart guns, and hair-breadth close calls, using nearly every cliche of every spy-adventure film ever made--not to create clever satiric effect, but to provide hoakey chills...
...codicil to his will, the Austrian man of letters Arthur Schnitzler instructed that a needle be thrust through his heart to remove any doubt of his death. As a novelist, short-story writer and playwright, best known for La Ronde, he had already probed the heart of the Viennese haute bourgeoisie with the lethal needle of wit, irony and skepticism, and pronounced it irrevocably dead...
...have been thinking and talking about for so long." Time and time again, in making decisions on budget and tax cuts, in giving instructions to his troops, Reagan would sigh, "I've been wanting to do that for a long time." His energy seemed to kindle with each thrust...
...resistant tiles, which are attached to its aluminum shell to keep the shuttle from burning up on reentry. It has also been plagued by trouble in its complex engines, which burn fuel at 6,000° C, hotter than the boiling point of most metals. The engines deliver a thrust of more than 1 million Ibs. (roughly the power output of 23 Hoover Dams). They pack three times more power for their weight than the J-2 engines that bore the Apollo astronauts aloft. Unlike the J-2s, they are not dropped away after takeoff but are designed...