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...base commanders around the country to win "public understanding and support" for the Administration's management of military programs. The media barrage, which was approved by Weinberger, spans a period beginning two days after Labor Day and ending Nov. 3, three days before the election. Common Cause President Fred Wertheimer asked Congress to investigate whether the Pentagon was improperly using public funds for partisan purposes. Countered Michael Burch, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs: "I don't think it is political at all. What we're doing is responding to our critics, be they Republican...
...love and friendship. It is a tale of two citizens (U.S.) played out in an alien though strangely familiar land (U.K.). Virginia Miner, "54 years old, small, plain, and unmarried - the sort of person that no one ever notices," has returned to London to research children's rhymes. Fred Turner, 28 and gorgeous, is in town to polish off a book on 18th century Poet-Playwright John...
...Fred and "Vinnie" are related by English department only; both teach at a university in upstate New York. Fred's feminist wife Ruth has decided to stay in America...
...that she conjures up in glum moments. This shaggy symbol of self-pity recently appeared after a critic dismissed her work with the question, "Do we really need a scholarly study of playground doggerel?" The author of the offending article, L.D. Zimmern, turns out to be the father of Fred's estranged wife. The coincidence seems to have been extended as an ironic gratuity signaling solemn readers that Foreign Affairs is, despite pathos, sudden death and madness, an adroitly bundled comedy of hits and errors...
...biggest mistake is Fred's. He falls for Lady Rosemary Radley, a blond and creamy television actress whose aristocratic public manner contrasts drastically with Lady R. the private shrew and slob...