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The court-martial ordered for two Marines whose plane downed an Italian cable car receives front-page play at the LAT , but is inside at the WP and NYT . The two Marines--the plane's pilot and the navigator--face 20 counts including negligent homicide and involuntary manslaughter.
He peeps from behind the screen to assess the age and sophistication of his audience and varies the play accordingly.
While the CIA Bubba may prefer a cold Bud and softball over a weekend of Bondian play in St. Moritz, I defy Luttwak to demonstrate how the U.S. government can reliably use such experiences as winter holidays on Europe's slopes as screens for future success in gathering information on dangers such as nuclear- or chemical-proliferation threats in the Middle East or East Asia.
The homiletic approach, in my experience, seems to work best in connection with sports, where all the uplifting talk--"talent is what you have, effort is what you give," play by the rules, practice makes perfect, etc.--goes along with real action (and, often, very obvious consequences).
But the play was reinstated a week later amid protests from nearly every important dramatist in America and many elsewhere.