Word: turnabout
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...reuniting it. With the approval of the Vatican, and with Americans taking the lead, Roman Catholic theologians are working with Lutherans and other Protestants to sift through the 16th century disputes and see whether the Protestant-Catholic split can some day be overcome. In a remarkable turnabout, Catholic scholars today express growing appreciation of Luther as a "father in the faith" and are willing to play down his excesses. According to a growing consensus, the great division need never have happened...
...turnabout is attributed to several factors: the agency's director Raymond Peck departed; a new and aggressive Transportation Secretary, Elizabeth Dole, took office last February; and the 1984 election is approaching...
...fast turnabout in the contras' fortunes is occurring along much of the border between Honduras and Nicaragua. The F.D.N.'s field commanders admit that they have withdrawn all their forward troops to the rear mountain zones. Equally unmistakable is the new mood that has replaced the euphoria of early spring. The F.D.N.'s political and military leaders are divided among themselves. "Our people feel we are fighting a much more powerful enemy than we ever expected," admits a worried F.D.N. leader. "They have trucks and planes and are even bringing vans of Pepsi-Cola to the front...
...demonstrated in last summer's Gregory 's Girl, Bill Forsyth is a master of the throwaway turnabout. Here, with a tenser situation and a somewhat richer mix of characters, he makes about the kind of advance one would expect from him, modest and self-effacing. Maclntyre (Peter Riegert), the acquisitions man from Knox Oil and Gas, may think of himself as "a telex man," all hard figures and bottom lines, but once in the field he is entirely capable of going all soppy about a wounded rabbit. His boss, Felix Happer (Burt Lancaster, expertly doing his clean...
...Socialists, reducing military spending represents a sharp turnabout. When Mitterrand was swept into power last year, he delighted France's NATO allies, and mollified suspicious right-wing opponents at home, by making it clear that he would strengthen the nation's defense effort. At a time when most of the allies were cutting back, Mitterrand proposed a hefty 17.6% increase in defense spending for 1982, or nearly 4% after inflation. Since then, the gray realities of recession have taken their toll. Defense Minister Charles Hernu, relying on a government decree, hacked a total of $2.5 billion from...