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...Relations Committee in March, suggesting that the NSC adviser should not have the power to negotiate, nor should he have a press secretary running around town promoting the fellow's personality and position. "The Assistant for National Security Affairs should not attempt to organize his office as a mini-foreign office," Rusk wrote...
...hours ticked into days, life in Mariel harbor grew monotonous, strangely communal. On one shrimper, a woman gave birth; on another boat, a man suffered a heart attack. There was a mini-mutiny aboard one boat; the captain, impatient after five days, decided to return home, although he had a $38,000 charter to pick up refugees. An angry exile pulled out a pistol and held him in his cabin a full day. The Cuban military presence also became more visible. Soldiers patrolled the banks of the harbor with automatic rifles. Jumbo choppers whipped across...
...shortfall is held to no more than 7%. But even though some IEA nations, such as West Germany and Denmark, continue to rely on Iranian exports for as much as 10% of their petroleum supplies, sky-high prices and slumping demand for crude have already created a worldwide mini-glut of oil that would offset any loss. Because of surplus supplies, the price of oil in the so-called spot market has declined from $42 per bbl. early this year to around $33. Indeed, with storage tanks already filled to overflowing, the industrial nations could probably get by without Iranian...
...mini-memos also helped Reagan avoid one of his weaknesses as Governor: his tendency to become bored when issues lingered too long. Indeed, while he worked hard at his job during business hours, he normally left for home promptly at 6 p.m. He would often join Wife Nancy for a vodka collins or vodka-and-tonic at their Sacramento home. After a shower, Reagan would usually change into pajamas, eat dinner, and then watch such favorite TV programs as Bonanza and Mission: Impossible. Nancy insisted that he get a full night's sleep; he normally retired...
...Fascists, Carlo Levi, poet, painter, doctor and political dissident, was sent to a mountain village in Lucania in southern Italy. The book he wrote about this experience, Christ Stopped at Eboli, has become a small modern classic. If the film, which has been carved out of a much longer mini-series originally made for Italian television, does not have quite the stature of the book, it is nonetheless sober, virtuous and quietly absorbing...