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...technical level, the Stones are better than ever. Jagger has acquired wonderful command voice; he sings with nuance and a remarkable adaptability to different lyrics and styles. He is our Sinatra. Watts now reigns as undisputed King of the Skins; his jazz- and reggae-influenced drumming is the band's gasohol. Watts singlehandedly saves at least two songs on the album from mediocrity, and lifts one to brilliance. The bass playing is at times superb, and probably Ron Wood's; elsewhere it is merely workmanlike, and probably Bill Wyman's. Over the years the Stones have acquired a nonpareil corps...
...atmosphere is hardly comparable to the paranoia in the Nixon White House, where the telephones of some officials suspected of leaking were secretly tapped. Says a State Department official: "Carter believes fiercely in the chain of command: once policy is set it has to be followed down the line." Still, Carter's preoccupation with leaks has worsened the already low morale in the State Department. Says a former official: "The message is, 'I don't trust you,' and it is damn hard to work for someone on those terms...
...elected first President of Iran's Islamic Republic last January with 76% of the vote-a seemingly invincible mandate. He had the confidence and blessing of the all-powerful Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who bestowed upon him command of the armed forces. Confident and ebullient, he promised to rebuild Iran's battered economy in accordance with the Islamic socialist theories he had developed as a doctoral student at the Sorbonne. Yet somehow Abolhassan Banisadr, 46, has become the saddest political casualty of the Islamic Republic; his clerical enemies in the Revolutionary Council have reduced him to a figurehead chief...
Almost everywhere, Labbé found evidence of the American pullout in 1975: a huge arsenal of U.S. warplanes, helicopters, tanks, guns and other matériel captured from the disintegrating South Vietnamese army and left behind by U.S. forces. Hanoi's high command has ingeniously combined its multinational matériel. Pilots trained in Moscow fly U.S. A-37 ground-attack jets and F-5 fighter-bombers. Airborne troops drop from Soviet transport planes wearing American parachutes. Chinese-made ships, donated by Peking during the Viet Nam War, have been equipped with new Soviet guns for patrol duty near...
...prominent opponent of the government plan is Lord Carver, a distinguished scholar who commanded an armored brigade during World War II. He believes Britain's outdated nuclear force serves no useful military purpose and should be integrated into the NATO command. He can envision no circumstance under which Britain would launch, on its own, a nuclear strike against the Soviet Union. Other critics argue that some form of nuclear independence should be maintained but call for cheaper alternatives...