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...this makes for easygoing reading, indeed a bit too easygoing. Many of O'Neill's rambling recollections would carry more weight if they contained a few firmer facts. And for all its street-corner savvy, the book is short on lasting wisdom about ways to cure Congress's chronic inability to pursue O'Neill's ideals without lapsing into fiscal irresponsibility. Yet by | capturing the inside feel of the political rough-and-tumble, O'Neill has succeeded in conveying the excitement of a career based on an abiding faith in what Government can accomplish...
...with trendy furniture and appliances, and one day, more than usually bored, buying the damn doghouse, a two-story log affair built to resemble a Western fort. Naturally Duane's red- eyed pooch Shorty won't go near this oddity. McMurtry neatly establishes both that Shorty has a firmer grip on things than his master and that Duane, though distracted, is not a bad egg; there is no dog in the doghouse he is cannonading. Still, Shorty does have problems: Can his master get it together to open a can of Alpo...
...ground. She judges J.F.K. as deficient in the kind of courage celebrated in Profiles: "the willingness to risk position, power, career for the sake of some abiding conviction." But she also argues that Kennedy was a strong leader because he was "unobstructed by ideological preconception." She is on much firmer ground when sticking to her own preconception, an alluring vision of history as romance...
...rebels a chance to explore the possibilities of a longer-lasting settlement. Moreover, the truce will free Aquino to campaign for adoption of a new constitution in a plebiscite on Feb. 2. If approved, that charter will strengthen the powers of the presidency and give Aquino a firmer hand in dealing with the nation's problems...
...over. At week's end a bomb exploded in a suburban Manila theater, injuring 18 people; it was the sixth such attack in the capital area in less than a month. Police blamed the attack on N.P.A. guerrillas. As President Aquino struggles to put her country on a firmer political footing, unequivocal support from her armed forces chief may well prove critical...