Word: orders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Will propping up the General Zias of the world make us more secure, or improve relations with the Third World? The reason it is so easy for the Soviets to stir up trouble, and to win allies, is because the U.S. defines itself as the keeper of the world order however it happens to exist right now. When the inevitable popular revolutions come, they turn anti-American. Remember Iran? Why must we be saddled with all the losers? As to arming China, or at least providing her with peaceful technology, which--surprise, surprise--she later converts to military uses...
That was the mood in which Carter had gone on television to order an unprecedented series of retaliations against the Soviet Union, highlighted by an embargo on the sale of $2.6 billion worth of corn, wheat and soybeans. For the first time in two months the 50 American captives in Tehran faded into the background. Said one high U.S. official: "The hostages are a burning but historically insignificant issue." Instead, the world now focused its attention on the more important?and potentially far more dangerous ?confrontation between the U.S. and the Soviet Union...
...other hand, if the price rises to, say, $3 a bushel in six months' time, the farmer would not collect that extra 25?-a-bushel profit. But farmers are often willing to forgo the opportunity for additional profit in order to guarantee in advance what they consider to be a fair return...
Even if Carter decides to order a U.S. boycott, he lacks the authority to enforce it. According to Olympic rules, only a country's Olympic committee may withdraw its athletes, and the u.s.o.c. is strongly opposed to any boycott. Whether it would refuse a formal presidential request is hard...
...Robert Graves story from which this screenplay was adapted. In a literary context, steam of consciousness can be effective often because it can be reviewed. If indeed Finnegan's Wake is a masterpiece, it is rarely recognized as such on the first reading. It takes many re-readings in order to follow the elusive psychological themes. Indeed, in film, the only way to give an audience this "review" is to leave signposts, cinematic Hansel and Gretel breadcrumbs in an attempt to give a frame of reference. And this is the killing blow to a film which already takes place within...