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...make up a painting, so the catalogue declared. One conceptual artist, Jannis Kounellis, exhibited a macaw on a perch-an old work, possibly touched up with a new macaw. Another, Vettor Pisani, had a rhesus monkey tied on a short leather strap to the top of a sinister-looking mirror table...
...normally boisterous Jaycees listened attentively as Vance stressed that Washington would not "mirror Soviet and Cuban activities in Africa." Such a course, warned Vance, "would only escalate military conflict with great human suffering." The Secretary listed a series of "positive" U.S. responses to the Soviet and Cuban presence. Among them: commitment to social justice and economic development, respect for African nationalism, and the fostering of human rights. That evening, as 80 Representatives and Senators gathered for an off-the-record briefing by President Carter, Vance's star seemed to ascend even higher. Though both Brown and Brzezinski were also...
...saying to me to put a cold towel around my head and wipe the blood off [she was now recollecting the scene and picture of the swearing in of Lyndon Johnson on Air Force One at Love Field, as the dead President lay aft] ... I saw myself in the mirror, my whole face spattered with blood and hair. I wiped it off with Kleenex. History! I thought, no one really wants me there. Then one second later I thought, why did I wash the blood off? I should have left it there, let them see what they've done...
...Izvestiya story was the most dramatic salvo in a Le Carré-like "lookingglass war" that has developed between Russian and American spooks; in a sense, it is the mirror image of the East-West battle of words being conducted on the diplomatic front. The Soviet decision to make a sensational public issue of the Peterson case was apparently prompted by U.S. disclosures four weeks ago that the FBI had captured three Soviet spies in Woodbridge, N.J. One of the Russians, a staff member of the Soviet mission to the U.N., had diplomatic immunity and was swiftly sent home...
...your Essay "Are We 'Destroying' Jimmy Carter?" [May 15]: Bravo! Instead of blaming everything on the President or Congress or lobbies or Big Business or Big Labor or the Arabs or the Israelis or ... we should look into the mirror...