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...great deal of studying to do before he could begin to manage U.S. foreign policy through a period of potentially perilous transition. But his preparation time will be brief. The Senators who will conduct his confirmation hearings next week are well aware of the dangers of a prolonged interregnum hi the Reagan Administration's already discordant foreign policy-making machinery. Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker, after conferring with Shultz, predicted "a searching inquiry into his attitude toward the Middle East," but added...
...line liberals, who fear that the high-tech Democrats will neglect the party's traditional commitment to the poor and minorities. Kennedy alluded to this in Philadelphia. "Rethinking our ideas should never be an excuse for retreating from our ideals," he declared. "The last thing this nation needs hi the 1980s is two Republican parties." Mondale does not criticize the neoliberals so strongly, but he is nevertheless wary of their proposals. Says he: "You can't have a banner with a microchip...
...lived long enough to know exactly what I'd be giving up for equality, but I do know what I'd be giving up if we went back to the '50s," she says. "I wouldn't be in school. There'd be no reason for me to be hi school. I could forget becoming a journalist, unless I wanted to write a cooking column some place...
...When Jorge Diaz Serrano, the president of Pemex, announced a $4-per-bbl. price cut, he was promptly sacked, and Mexican oil prices were jacked up again. Customers went elsewhere until Mexico bowed to the pressures of the marketplace. By that time, the country had lost about $1 billion hi revenue, and the drain has continued. Laments one Mexican businessman: "We thought we were going to become like Saudi Arabia. Instead, we became like Nigeria...
There are only a few moments, however, when the Thing can actually be seen going about its transforming business. Unquestionably, these changes are colorfully horrific, state-of-the-goo achievements for the new Hi-Glop school of makeup effects. Once an individual has been successfully invaded by the Thing, he quickly reverts to his previous form. Thus after the Thing has been at large for a while, it is impossible to determine whose body has been snatched for evil, whose has not. This leads to a certain amount of paranoia. But not to as much suspense as the good basic...