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...midweek, Weinberger and Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle appeared in the Pentagon briefing room. They stood before an array of charts and photographs, including ones of Leonid Smirnov, director of the Soviet Military Industrial Commission, and KGB Boss Victor Chebrikov. The rogues' gallery provided an atmospheric backdrop for distribution of a 34-page study on how the Soviets have advanced 5,000 of their research projects with technical information bought, stolen or acquired legally in the West...
Cajun cooking, the bayou fare of Louisiana's transplanted French-Canadians, draws on spicy herbs, fish, shellfish, poultry, and pork to create an unusual array of funkadelic flavors. Most of The Yankee's offerings fall under the heading "Hot and Hearty...
...decision to establish a $1 million anti-apartheid fund with Harvard money similarly defies his strictures about the appropriate uses of University resources. As described in the open letter, this fund would support a wide array of endeavors, including lobbying for federal sanctions against South Africa, "contributing money to the defense of South Africans whose human rights have been violated," and sending Harvard students to South Africa to provide legal, medical, and educational services...
That situation may have been aggravated by the increasing exposure of the Chinese people to an ever wider array of influences from abroad. One week there is talk of a Disney-style amusement park for southern Peking. The next, General Motors delivers a fleet of 20 Cadillac limousines to be used by visiting businessmen. Last April, party officials, after solemnly viewing videotapes of the British rock group Wham!, allowed the band to appear in Peking, complete with scantily clad go-go dancers and pelvis-thrusting vocalist. A golf course is scheduled to open next May in the historic Valley...
...reincarnation of The Twilight Zone. CBS is premiering a fourth series, George Burns Comedy Week, which will feature a different comedy segment each week, linked by Burns, who acts as host, and the creative oversight of Co-Executive Producer Steve Martin. Each of these anthologies has enlisted a notable array of directors and writers who rarely or never do TV. Network programmers will be watching the results closely. If one or more of the newcomers do well in the ratings, TV may have taken a significant step toward creative diversity. If they flop, well, it's back to the sausage...