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...secret of his success, says former U.S. Diplomat Averell Harriman, is his special gift of understanding "the other man's point of view," thereby gaining the precious element of trust. No talent is more vital in the Middle East, and Philip Charles Habib, 61, has so far used it impressively during his eleven-week mission. Says one Israeli admirer: "If he hears the word no, he pretends he hasn't heard...
...Department budget, scaled back conservation and solar research programs, and sharply curtailed investment in synthetic-fuel projects. Reagan Administration officials admit that under such a free market energy program, fuel prices will rise until they reach world levels. But they maintain that the payoff will be more conservation of precious fuel, higher domestic energy production, and ultimately less dependence upon Middle East oil suppliers...
...wife-neglecting troublemaker if there ever was one. Even in the inspired stories of the Bible, people seldom behave very well, beginning with Adam and Eve and proceeding to Cain and Abel and the folk in Sodom and Gomorrah. Contemporary fictions create their own mischief: Portnoy, for example, spends precious little time collecting for the United Fund...
...case, the Secretary believes, the Soviets do not place that much stock in pure talk. Only when we capitalists put our precious money where our mouths are do the Soviets get a message they understand and believe. Thus it is that Haig sees the imminent decisions and action on such issues as the B-1 bomber and the MX missile system as key statements of American foreign policy. After the decisions on military buildup have been firmly made, Haig believes, we may see a new willingness in both Washington and the Kremlin to talk about limiting nuclear weapons...
...spreading the coke on a table in "lines" for sniffing is as elaborate and careful as a Japanese tea ceremony-an affectation hilariously burlesqued in the 1977 film Annie Hall when Woody Allen sneezed at the wrong moment and blew away hundreds of dollars' worth of the precious powder...