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That assertion was by no means justified. But it did serve to underline a grim fact: as long as military and diplomatic conditions did not force Argentina to a different assessment, the ugly battle at the bottom of the world might be very hard to stop...
...will take more than soothing personalities to improve the grim outlook for Harvester's finances. Says Richard F. Rossi, an analyst at Merrill Lynch: "The company will not turn around just because McCardell is gone. His departure will not make the situation between the company and its creditors any different at all for the time being." The big question that remains at International Harvester is whether the bankers will give the new management enough time to try to save the firm...
...helped, if anything, to sour enthusiasm for its massive military shopping spree, and the apparent drift towards East-West confrontation of some kind was sufficiently unnerving to provoke the first large scale American public discussion of nuclear war in two decades. For whatever reason--and certainly the reliably grim economic news is a prime factor the support for increased defense spending which arose in the late '70s has almost wholly dissipated. A recent poll found that a clear majority of the respondents favored significant cuts in Reagan's military program...
House Speaker Tip O'Neill and the President were involved in a second round of negotiations that concluded last week-not on the budget but on theology. O'Neill phoned Deputy White House Chief of Staff Michael Deaver to warn that the situation was looking grim. Deaver then convinced the President that policy had to be changed. An order went out through Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger to Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, who obediently bowed: a Navy attack submarine initially christened Corpus Christi (which means "body of Christ" in Latin) will be renamed, probably City...
...more serious: an actor's gradual betrayal of political, not to mention moral, principle in return for professional advancement in Nazi Germany. The style could not be more surprising. One has come to expect material of this kind to be set forth in a tone of grim and stately foreboding. Instead, Mephisto, a Hungarian-German coproduction that richly deserved its Oscar as this year's Best Foreign Film, moves with a feverish back-staginess, a rushing, unbalancing energy that not only freshens one's historical imagination but finally forces the viewer to turn in on himself, trying...