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...advice for solving the problem. David Packard of Hewlett-Packard, a former Deputy Secretary of Defense whose company derives 15% of its revenues from defense work, called on the President to reduce his military budget by up to $10 billion. "Those battleship expenditures don't seem very wise. I think the South Atlantic fiasco proves that ships aren't safe from missile attack," said Packard. "I'd also recommend skipping the B-l bomber and going directly to the Stealth bomber." Agreed Jones: "There's a real question of whether we can intelligently spend that much...
...wise, or even possible, for a Pope to visit a largely non-Roman Catholic country that is warring with a Catholic nation? And is it possible, or even wise, for a Pope to plan on a summer visit to his beloved homeland, which last week was the scene of new national unrest? Even as Pope John Paul II and his entourage were preparing for this week's pastoral tour of Fatima and other Portuguese cities, they were reassessing the risks and opportunities of the politically sensitive journey to England later this month and a possible pilgrimage to Poland...
...performance of Ann-Margaret as Herb's girlfriend Stephanie Stephanie is the most sensible character in the film, and as such she delivers the most serious lines and she doesn't have to scream to get her point across. Simon uses her as a straight woman to the wise-cracking Herb and Libby, and Ann-Margaret makes the most of this position by never allowing herself to be upstaged. This is an unusual role for her, and she plays it with strength and credibility, thus surpassing the background spot the script assigns...
...great majority in Britain welcomed the dispatch of the Royal Navy task force to the South Atlantic. But some in the U.K. are beginning to express anxiety about its use. Sending the force was all right, the argument goes, but using it is quite another matter. Would that be wise, would it be right? The question can be simply and robustly settled. "Covenants without swords," wrote Thomas Hobbes in the 17th century, "are but words." There is no point in sending guns unless you are prepared to use them...
...convict, but she is an owl of wisdom. No one fully glimpses her past until a warmer-than-drawing-room-temperature confrontation in Act III with the judge (I.M. Hobson) who convicted her. Miss Madrigal, it develops, tended a garden during her 15-year sentence for murder. Under her wise ministrations the lime-based waste patch of the play's title also promises to flourish, along with the love-parched inhabitants of the manor house...