Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Weinberger's selection, which was still not final at week's end, opened the job of Secretary of State as a possibility for General Haig, 56. Haig's insistence that the U.S. must counter the Soviet military buildup and threatening moves in the Third World parallels the foreign policy views of Reagan. Haig also wins applause from Western Europeans for his stress on strengthening the NATO alliance. Says a top West German defense official: "The man is quite simply the best that Washington has ever sent us." Haig was considered for Secretary of Defense, but that post...
Brisk and impatient as always, Prime Minister Francisco Sá Carneiro arrived at Lisbon airport last week anxious to fly off to Oporto. There, with national elections scheduled for Sunday, he planned to deliver a final hortatory salvo to promote his presidential candidate-but no relation-General António Soares Carneiro. With the Prime Minister, in the twin-engine Cessna C-421, were his longtime companion, Danish-born Snu Abecassis; Defense Minister Adeline Amaro da Costa and his wife; Cabinet Chief António Patricio Gouveia and two pilots. Almost immediately after takeoff, the plane lost altitude. It sheered...
...dealers' showrooms this fall would end the industry's nearly two-year-long sales slump. So far, that has not happened. Sales of U.S.-made cars in November declined 8.3% from 1979's depressed levels, and they were down 17% for the month's final ten days...
...Lemmon should know, movies are different. What looks like a character's final tribute from a theater balcony be comes, in movie closeup, an autopsy. And Lemmon, by re-creating his stage performance, has created another, more pitiable Scottie. Lemmon still articulates a lexicon of frayed hopes through his sad-clown face, still works the crowd like an aging but adept masseur. But this Scottie is no longer a man one would care to spend an evening drinking with, or even observing. He chokes on his own gag lines; he straitjackets his son (Robby Benson) in a slapstick embrace...
...world collapsed like a burlesque banana's baggy pants. On Broadway, as incarnated by Jack Lemmon, Scottie was a sympathetic soul. With the footlights acting as a DMZ between character and playgoer, Scottie could be abstracted and romanticized: he was the fatally ill trouper doing one heroic final turn...