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...further point that Jebsen obscures is that most of us who argue against an American military presence in Central America and against giving military aid to countries in that region, would not have the U.S. abandon that region entirely. The U.S. would still provide economic aid and use its influence through diplomatic channels...
...work will have little trouble remaining calm once again; a large audience of devoted fans will find their author's gnomic mystifications as fascinating as ever. But no one can dispute how sharply Golding has made a break with some of his old habits. Unfortunately, he does not abandon his worst ones. At first, the customary mixture of history, allegory and determinist philosophy seems absent. Golding begins with a plausible version of the here and now, and introduces a main character who bears some teasing resemblances to Golding himself...
...uncomfortable duty, one that I had performed myself for other Presidents, and I sympathized. But in the circumstances, with this message coming when we were on the verge of achieving peace in Lebanon, I felt that I must hear the words from the President himself. I could not abandon the negotiations on lesser authority...
...refusal to divest from companies which operate in South Africa was effectively a dead issue. Pointing to the cold reaction of Cabot House students at a recent student-faculty dinner and to the obstinacy of Bok and the Harvard Corporation, Peter J. Howe all but said that students should abandon the issue...
...pathological. He has opposed the deployment of US troops to Grenada and Lebanon, he refuses to commit American forces directly in order to keep open the vital Straits of Hormuz, through which much of the Western world's imported oil flows, and now he wants America to abandon Central America...