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That seems to be Reagan's principal position too. This shared willingness to talk may be, at least for now, as significant as the substantive abyss that separates the two sides. That point was stressed by one of the Administration's most ardent hardliners, Eugene Rostow, director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Said he: "Arms control negotiations are not bargains among peasants haggling over the price of potatoes. The two leading nuclear powers should do whatever is possible to help lift the cloud of war from the horizon.'' -By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Erik...
Although several key posts in the Salvadoran government named last month are filled by moderate Christian Democrats, the real power lies with d'Abuisson. As president of an assembly controlled by the extreme right, he has the power to veto any legislation. An ardent opponent of land reform and other measures to help the poor, d'Aubuisson hardly appears likely to back progressive proposals the government may put forth...
MANY PEOPLE LOSE their heads when forced to compromise their values. But Sir Thomas More refused to compromise his values and lost his head, literally. More, the 16th century philosopher, scholar and ardent catholic, not only sparks the deadly anger of a king-but also inspires the hero of Robert Bolt's A Man For All Seasons, currently playing at Mather House...
...Destiny" is Kollek's description of how he came to be mayor: "My whole life led up to it." Born in Vienna 70 years ago, he became an ardent Zionist and arrived in Israel in 1935 to work on a kibbutz. During and after World War II, he undertook a number of foreign intelligence missions and helped smuggle refugees and arms into Palestine. After independence, he served for more than a decade as director general of the Prime Minister's office. Elected mayor of Jerusalem on a Labor ticket in 1965, he has been re-elected three times...
...preach!" Out of the darkness the voice rose-young, proud, urgent, female and black. It was an exhortation that might have been addressed to the spellbinding pastor of a Harlem storefront church, or to a Black Panther stopping pedestrian traffic on a street corner in Oakland, or to an ardent buck accelerating into passion on an apartment-house roof in Atlanta. As it happens, the voice came from the back of a theater auditorium in Long Beach, Calif. It was shouted to the man onstage, who could lay claim to being all those people: minister to the oppressed, political agitator...