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...Administration also pointedly paid court to the Soviets' bitter foes, the Chinese. While on a trip to Peking that had been scheduled some months before, Defense Secretary Harold Brown suggested that, despite their obvious differences, the U.S. and China might seek "complementary actions" to counter Soviet expansionism. Brown announced that the U.S. would provide Peking with a ground station for receiving signals from satellites ?the sort of high technology that is being denied to the Soviets. Further, Brown and his hosts indicated that they would hold future talks on military affairs, which signaled Washington's interest in creating...
...principles. But already his Administration has had to revise, if not reverse, its course in a number of key respects. As a consequence of the increase in East-West tensions, the world is farther than ever from the objective of disarmament that Carter proclaimed in his Inaugural Address. With Harold Brown's statements in China last week about Sino-American common interests in countering Soviet expansionism, the Administration abandoned the last pretense of the "evenhandedness" it promised in its policies toward Moscow and Peking. Far from playing down the Soviet-American relationship, Carter and his advisers today are more...
BETRAYAL by Harold Pinter...
Imagine an instant replay-not in slow motion, but in reverse. That is what Harold Pinter has done in depicting an adulterous love affair. It is over in the first of nine scenes, and it begins just before the curtain drops. This is a clever conceit. Pinter, as we have much past reason to know, cannot write a wrong line-or a dull pause. The key actors, Raul Julia, Blythe Banner and Roy Scheider, are marvels of professional finesse, and Peter Hall's direction is ticktock perfect in its precision...
...Wilde. Deftly, Tynan puts his judgment of Stoppard in the book's foreword: "A uniquely inventive playwright who has more than once been within hailing distance of greatness." The piece itself is an adulatory delight, especially a scene in which Stoppard emerges as a game-saving hero of Harold Pinter's cricket team after Pinter and his lover, Lady Antonia Fraser, retire to a nearby pub to avoid a confrontation with Pinter's wife...