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DIPLOMACY IS NOTHING MORE than a game of chess played on the real-world chessboard, they say, and we all know that Ronald Reagan is no grandmaster. Hindered by inexperience and unsophistication in foreign affairs, he seems incapable of designing the cautions, prudent strategy necessary to lead a superpower in a dangerous and uncertain world...
...Corp.: "Houston lacks the forward planning and leadership to keep up with services. It's obvious the city hasn't kept pace with growth." The city may have learned its lesson. Last week voters overwhelmingly elected Kathryn Whitmire, 35, the city controller, as mayor. Whitmire promises a prudent, businesslike approach to "the problems that have arisen from the wealth we have...
...sponsoring, training, harboring terrorist groups who conduct activities against the lives of American diplomats." Haig had "no other information" directly linking the attempt on Chapman's life to Gaddafi, but added: "I think it underlines once again the urgency of dealing with this problem [Gaddafi] in an effective, prudent, but unequivocal...
...prudent corporate policy, however, for RCA to hold out space on all its satellites in case of emergency. Those eight previous assignments on Satcom IV are a sobering object lesson, being RCA's way of making good to clients on Satcom III, which was lofted into the air on Dec. 6, 1979 and vanished directly into the great void, where even now it may be circling the starship Enterprise and playing hob with its Tonight show reception...
...Secret Service had been on duty in 1781 at Yorktown, Lord Cornwallis might have had a fighting chance against George Washington. Concerned in 1981 about security for Washington's 39th successor to the presidency, the prudent but unromantic federal agents forced the play-acting colonial troops to surrender all but a few of their 50 cannons, temporarily confiscated their flints and black powder and subjected each make-believe soldier to a metal detector's scan. No matter: the glory of re-created victory was undimmed. Over the sunny Virginia meadows marched 2,200 ersatz Revolutionaries. There were French...