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Particularly dispiriting was the sense that the U.S. was becoming so bogged down in immediate problems?how to safeguard the Marines, how to keep the Lebanese government from falling apart?that it could not concentrate on the search for a wider peace in the Middle East. With the U.S. battening down for the coming presidential-election campaign, not much in the way of hard thinking could be expected on that front. Nonetheless, the Administration maintained that it was making some progress. The Syrians are still dealing with the U.S. Ambassador in Damascus, and have generally been less bellicose in private...
...great demands on the listener. But if, as Mark Twain supposedly said, Wagner's music is not as bad as it sounds, Messiaen's opera is not as formidable as it seems. Saint François d'Assose is a rare spiritual testament and deserves a wider hearing, perhaps in the concert hall or on records...
...Americans watched ABC's version of the nukemare.* Against the tense backdrop of U.S. missile deployments in Western Europe and the Soviet walkout at the Geneva arms talks, The Day After sharpened the debate between opponents and supporters of the Reagan Administration's weapons policies. On a wider, more superficial level, the movie brought home the terror of nuclear devastation to millions of Americans too young to remember Hiroshima, the air-raid drills of the 1950s or even the jittery days of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis...
...rather than actually to direct Administration policy. Far more indicative of Congress's attitude was the favorable action taken on the fiscal 1984 defense budget. The House followed the Senate and by a close vote (217 to 208) approved funds for the MX missile and by a wider margin (247 to 175) funds for the B-l bomber...
...Administration's latest effort to clamp a lid on Government secrets would have been a secret in itself if its designers could have had their way. A national security directive authorizing wider use of lie detectors to plug leaks and ordering senior federal officials to clear speeches and articles about classified topics for the rest of their lives was signed by President Reagan late on a Friday last March. That is when bureaucrats head home for the weekend and Washington correspondents relax their vigilance. When the order was discovered by reporters-Congress had been given no advance notice-Justice...