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Britons were for once uniformly outraged. Thundered the Times indignantly: "So much for the guards at Buckingham Palace. The ceremony of changing the Guard will never seem quite the same again ... All that array of scarlet tunics, burnished brass and polished leather, and still an intruder could stroll into the palace and up to the Queen's bedroom without being detected...
...recovery from the lingering recession. Says Conable: "Wall Street is watching us very closely to see if we are serious or just playing games." But when the House takes up its version of the Dole bill, it is certain to be pounced upon by lobbyists for an extraordinary array of powerful interests: doctors, lawyers, airlines, aerospace contractors, banks, tobacco farmers and cigarette makers. Says Conable: "The Senate caught them napping, but now they have to take all these proposals seriously." The bill's fate might well be determined by the attitude of the White House. Says Shannon...
That possibility is taken seriously by the Soviets, who are genuinely frightened of an all-out American buildup. They are worried that an array of new American weapons-the land-based MX and Pershing II, the submarine-launched Trident II, the B-l and "Stealth" bombers, and cruise missiles deployed on land, at sea and in the air-threaten them with vulnerability and inferiority by the 1990s...
...help nurture its friendships both in the U.S. and abroad, Bechtel over the years has benefited from the aid of a stunning array of officials and advisers with excellent Government contacts. At one time or another, these have included: John McCone, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and later head of the CIA under John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; Parker Hart, former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia; and Charls Walker, Deputy Secretary of the Treasury under Richard Nixon. Today two powerful members of the Reagan Administration are former top Bechtel officers: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Deputy Secretary of Energy...
...might be possible to care more about Haider and his plight if he were not such a typically alienated antihero. The hero of the evening is Alan Howard. His is a meticulously stylized performance and a memorable display of the actor's craft. Howard's array of arid classroom gestures and pinched facial nerves is matched by a voice that barks, chokes, melts and freezes. And when he does a close-to-floor-level, slow-motion goose-step, the monstrous history of the Third Reich seems to be marching past...