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Comfortable with the media and much more public than his predecessor. Law can discuss Marxism with Cuban President Fidel Castro--as he did last week in the Caribbean--as easily as he can film a television commercial against drank driving with Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis...
...Governor of California, arrived in Washington as Deputy Secretary of State under Alexander Haig. Clark's appointment raised eyebrows because of his scant knowledge of foreign affairs. But he quickly overcame the know-nothing image. During his 15-month reign at Interior, Clark has changed few of his predecessor's policies, but he has scored points with some conservationists for at least listening to their concerns...
...Mulroney has announced his intention to close down Canada's decade-old Foreign Investment Review Agency, which screened all new foreign investments. In its place, he is creating Investment Canada, an agency that will, in the Prime Minister's words, "encourage and facilitate investment." Like its predecessor, however, Investment Canada will have the right to review potential foreign entrants into businesses deemed important to Canada's cultural heritage and national identity. Most direct takeovers of existing Canadian businesses whose assets exceed $3.8 million will still be eligible for review...
...seats in Parliament. U.D.P. Leader Manuel Esquivel, 44, the new Prime Minister, said he will "pursue good relations with the United States" and work for settlement of a territorial dispute with neighboring Guatemala, but his policies are not expected to differ much from those of his predecessor. So lopsided was the vote that Price lost his own Belize City seat to the U.D.P.'s Derek Aikman, 25, a newcomer to politics...
...future. The film was about quests, not answers, and at its conclusion an air of benign befuddlement lingered over its hipper audiences like a corona of reefer smoke. Now, in the quick-solution '80s, comes 2010, a sequel whose sole purpose is to explain the ending of its predecessor. Working from Arthur C. Clarke's novel, Writer-Director Peter Hyams lets his movie waltz in place for an hour or so before enlisting the surviving members of the original cast (Keir Dullea, HAL 9000, the monolith) to help provide the inspirational capper. Flash: There is intelligent life...