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...kind of "Arab weapons-supply depot" accessible to any nation willing to fight Israel. The huge Saudi and Iraqi arsenals could be put to the same use. Compounding Jerusalem's worries about the Arab arms buildup was the creation last year of a joint Syrian-Jordanian military command on Israel's eastern front...
...ENTRY OF THE FBI and their work with Philadelphia prosecutor Richard Sprague forms the basis of Trevor Armbrister's book, Act of Vengeance. Sprague took the bureau's solid investigative work to win convictions up the chain of command, and finally nailed Boyle...
Lusterman and Norman don't possess Chassler's presence, her power to absorb an audience with each slight twitter. The two perform well in the idiom of Chassler's movement and occasionally hit upon the nexus of subjectivity/objectivity. Yet neither command Chassler's magic...
...Assad: 'Sadat has a fixed determination to overcome obstacles and move toward peace. He makes big moves and breaks impasses. With Assad, each issue when you get to it becomes major, and you have to bargain over every point. It's so time consuming! Sadat makes command decisions. Assad had his lieutenants there, and I had to convince them too.' In describing Assad, Kissinger was also describing the Israelis to themselves...
Whoever directs, Peter Hall will rule. He may command through persuasive fluency and crisp decision, but he must also woo the paying customers and the satraps of subsidy. At least 80% of the 2,450 seats must be filled or the prevailing ratio of $2 in government subsidy for every $2 in theater receipts will go perilously awry. There has been quite audible grumbling about the $30 million that has already gone into what one sour critic has labeled "the concrete Xanadu on the South Bank." Hall has astutely muted such criticism by occupying the premises, and the government...