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...assault on South Georgia offered the first concrete insight into the ways Britain might fight its difficult war in the Falklands. Even as Foreign Secretary Pym conferred in Washington with Secretary of State Haig on April 22 about a possible diplomatic solution to the crisis, as many as a dozen members of Britain's elite Special Boat Squadron, an ultra-secret frogman-commando unit, had slipped quietly ashore on the island. Their mission was to scout Argentine troop emplacements and estimate the size of the opposing force. The scouts reported that the Argentine troops at the South Georgia harbor...
Wallingham yesterday defended his results, saying they reflect broad insight about the admissions process and never claim to be detailed predictions of individual cases...
...border on the lyrical. There are jokes with a personal stamp, characteristic expressions, a characteristic cadence. After he has left the outraged Natalie for two days, he returns to her with a speech about a pool game that evokes both a concrete scene and a mental state with startling insight. Sure, there are some problems. A few scenes too many end with a shouted "Oh, go away!" or a slamming door. The character of Natalie seems nowhere near as complex as Johnny's so that the story she narrates occasionally seems to escape her comprehension. The flashback monologues that...
...tells of an Administration under siege. It deals with the gathering impact of Watergate as a torrent of disclosures burst upon the nation. Then it describes Watergate's climax and America's catharsis in the premature end of the Nixon Administration. Also in this issue are an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles of the two men who were Nixon's closest aides until they were jettisoned for their involvement in Watergate; and a portrait of Alexander Haig, Kissinger's deputy on the National Security Council...
...that he needed bolstering and support. She was, of course (she said), calling on her own without her boss's knowledge. (The odds were that he was standing beside her, prompting her while she talked.) It was vintage Nixon: the fear of confrontation; the indirect approach; the acute insight into my reaction; and the attempt to soften it through a preposterous charade that would get him over the first hurdle...