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...appalling that any citizen could applaud the shooting of a President. The reaction of the students from Tulsa was as sick and disgusting as the assassination attempt itself...
...majority applaud not the tragedy of the shooting but the courage, humor and intelligence of an incredibly well-balanced President. His Administration may have some frayed edges, but it responds to emergencies with decisiveness and wisdom...
...While I applaud the team's success at the Eastern's as well. I am not under the illusion that Harvard is a national power in swimming. This team finished 21st at the NCAAs, the worst showing since Bernal arrived in September...
Throughout the NATO countries there is a widespread conviction that if the U.S. would just resume arms-control talks with the Soviets, Europe could get on with peace and prosperity again. The European press was quick to applaud Leonid Brezhnev's surprise call for a U.S.-Soviet summit at the recent Soviet Party Congress and his subsequent letters to Western political leaders expressing his interest in arms limitation. In stark contrast, President Reagan is often portrayed as a reckless warmonger intent on bombing the Soviets "back to the Stone Age," as the West German weekly Stern recently...
...They worry that the Reagan Administration's military plans for the Pacific may include the sale of modern warplanes to Taiwan, which the People's Republic regards as a violation of the terms by which diplomatic relations were established two years ago. Also while officials in Peking applaud the hard-line anti-Soviet rhetoric now coming out of Washington, they say that they are still awaiting "concrete actions." In any case, they caution that the Soviet military challenge is too big for any imaginable American response to handle...