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...Jersey. The feud is unequivocally over. All is forgiven. Forgotten? Not just yet. "Why, we're plain old Hatfields and McCoys," says one of the latter in a shrugging, boiler-plate disclaimer, "good friends and neighbors . . ." Yet after a reminiscence has meandered a while, and the truce reaffirmed again, the rote kindliness can give way to neat bursts of partisanship. In bits and pieces, a little blame is assigned, victory claimed. The legacy is not erased, just quiet and manageable. Modern Hatfields and McCoys do not quite know whether to be proud or embarrassed by their inglorious family histories...
...should not fight the United States." As Yamamoto saw it, there was only one slim chance for victory if war with the U.S. were to be pursued. A massive surprise Midway on Pearl Harbor might inflict enough damage on the U.S. Pacific Fleet based there to win an early truce from Washington...
...states. That, in turn, would greatly increase the threat of a new Middle East war. Deeply worried that Lebanon's fragile cease-fire could soon crack, the Reagan Administration planned to dispatch Special Envoy Philip Habib back to the region after the Arab summit to seek a lasting truce...
While Haig was moving toward a truce with Allen and the White House, the Secretary of State inadvertently opened a new skirmish with Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, with whom he has clashed before. Haig was appearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to explain the Administration's $180 billion plan to upgrade the U.S. nuclear arsenal. He remarked that NATO contingency plans include the option "to fire a nuclear weapon for demonstrative purposes" to deter a massive conventional-force Soviet thrust into Europe. Haig did not say where this warning shot would be detonated. His point, mainly lost...
When Chelsea reappears, the old man even manages a tentative truce, acceptance of the sort Ethel has been struggling to bring about. Whether that truce signals a real reconciliation the movie does not definitively promise. But if it refuses to go for a big, emotional finish that would leave its audience awash in grateful tears, neither does it leave them without hope...