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...briefings: "Now that I know about 'orchestration' and 'crescendo' and all those beautiful words they use for war-which makes you think you should hear violins instead of tears-I begin to get the feeling lately that I'm in the middle of a scenario, and the President is leading it with a baton...
...scenario is fairly clear-cut; it is the mise en scéne that is so complex. Cinematographer David Watkin (Catch-22, The Charge of the Light Brigade) lights the sumptuous sets to give a consistent aura of hallucination. Russell lashes his actors into a histrionic verve that is reminiscent in equal parts of the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Living Theater and Bedlam. The supporting cast (Dudley Sutton and Michael Gothard most prominent among them) act like a chorus and look like creatures from a Bosch triptych. Oliver Reed is suitably forceful as Grandier; it is indeed his best performance...
According to this thesis, the Colombo rackets will fall to Persico as his reward. Then, the scenario goes, Persico, who has never been much of a leader, will botch up, leaving the road clear for Gambino to take uncontested control of the Colombo interests...
Endangered Negotiations. The Post's scenario before the Court of Appeals in Washington was slightly different. Solicitor General Griswold argued that the "integrity of the institution of the presidency" was at stake in the Post case and implied that if the press were free to publish classified material on general principle, such sensitive international negotiations as the SALT talks might be endangered. The court was unimpressed and ruled 7-2 that Griswold had failed to make a case. The next day the Government lost its bid for a second review, again 7-2. The majority opinion declared tartly...
Simultaneously, high White House and Pentagon officials periodically met for Strangelovian "Sigma Games" in the Pentagon. There, McGeorge Bundy, General Earle Wheeler and General Curtis LeMay, among others, devised ploy and counterploy for a bombing scenario with equally negative results. After 21 years of air strikes in the North, a follow-up survey by Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Nitze proved the predictions correct; but it was another year before the bombing was stopped. RUSSIAN SNUB. American diplomats tried unsuccessfully in 1965 to secure Soviet assistance in carrying word of a planned bombing halt to North Viet Nam. The message...