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...Amidst all the uncertainties, Reagan read and approved nine top-secret strategic studies that are designed to shape American global considerations for the rest of the century. Last week the President signed the directives that grew out of the studies, which had been under way for months. The outlines will be made public soon. How these changes will affect this shifting world remains to be seen. But Reagan, right or wrong, has made important decisions, and this time they have been tempered and sharpened by events he could watch from the edges...
...estimated at 30 percent of the population. In the capital city, Port as Prince, the average annual income is $275 a year, in the rural areas the figure falls below $135 a year. The infant mortality rate is 30 percent, and the average Haitian life span is 52 years. Amidst this squalor, Duvalier spent more than $1 million on his 1980 marriage ceremony...
...Amidst golfs lean towheads, a fat man can look good...
...amidst all the debate about guns and bombs, there is one aspect of our military involvement in Asia that has received scant attention, despite its pressing moral and humanitarian nature. This is the plight of the so-called "Amerasians," the offspring of American soldiers and Asian women, an estimated 80,000 of Laos and Vietnam...
...WHICH is very illuminating and funny; Schaap's diagnosis of what makes George rant and rave does make sense. Yet amidst all the stories and jokes, Schaap fails to address questions that the presence in the sports world of men like Steinbrenner has raised. Those who deride Steinbrenner tend to rail on him for two activities: meddling in on-the-field decisions, and jacking up baseball salaries to an insane level. With his general mockery of Steinbrenner, Schaap suggests that he blames the Yankee owner for both trends...