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Concorde means harmony in French. But last week the needle-nosed, Anglo-French supersonic transport was the center of a bitter diplomatic quarrel that could poison transatlantic relations for years. What set off the dispute was the prospect that the Port of New York Authority would finally refuse landing rights for Concorde at New York's Kennedy International Airport. Instead, the Port Authority's eleven commissioners deferred decision for the third time in a year. The postponement followed intense, eleventh-hour lobbying by the governments of France and Britain and threats from unions in those countries of retaliation...
Each country has its gripes. As Carter heard last week from visiting Prime Minister James Callaghan, Britain is upset by New York City's reluctance to grant landing rights to the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic jetliner (see THE WORLD). French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing is even more piqued. The West Germans fear that Carter's pressure to get them to cancel a sale of nuclear reactors to Brazil will result in damage to their reputation abroad as dependable deliverers...
...Mamet's three characters-the owner of the store and two neighborhood punks who hang out there-is an incrustation of street slang, non sequiturs, malapropisms and compulsive obscenity. The playwright revels a bit too much in this scatology and blasphemy. Delete the most common four-letter Anglo-Saxonism from the script and his drama might last only one hour instead of two. But Mamet has an infallible ear for the cadences of loneliness and fear behind the bluntness, and he also knows how to make the bluntness very funny...
Proud Traditions. As Salutin's play suggests, there was a time when Les Canadiens worked as a symbol for Quebec spirit. The French of Canada, proud of their traditions and staunch in their Roman Catholicism, felt repressed by Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. In 1955, when Maurice Richard, the great Montreal forward, was suspended by Clarence Campbell, the league president, for scuffling with an official, French fans smashed shop windows along Rue Ste. Catherine. Although this was a melee, not a rational debate, popular sociologists went as wild as the fans. Les Canadiens, they suggested, were not merely a hockey team...
During the Labor government of 1945-51, Eden was the Tory opposition's foreign affairs spokesman. He emphasized the importance of the Anglo-American partnership and a militarily strong Western Europe, including a rearmed West Germany. Eden, though, was cool to West European economic or political integration. In one 1949 speech he declared, "If the U.S. and the British Commonwealth and Empire stand together and work together, there is no world problem they cannot solve. If they fall apart, there is no world problem that can be solved...