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...gulf fiasco is only the latest ill-fated attempt by the Reagan Administration to assert U.S. interests by deploying troops on largely symbolic missions. The crew of the Stark was on a poorly defined mission when it was struck by wayward Iraqi Exocet missiles last May. In 1983 Marines deployed in Beirut turned out to be sitting ducks in an ill-protected barracks; 241 Americans were killed by a truck bomb. Despite the valor of those who fought in Grenada in 1983, the mission was beset by examples of military ineptitude and interservice rivalries. In Libya three years later, after...
...article on the Jersey Devil ((AMERICAN SCENE, April 27)), an irreverent group of designer-builders, asserts that the American Institute of Architects has a policy against architects' both designing and building projects. To avoid this alleged prohibition, the firm has chosen not to become licensed. This is an inaccurate representation of both A.I.A. policy and the licensing process. First, the A.I.A. does not license architects; state boards do. The A.I.A.'s position on any subject could not affect the Jersey Devil's ability to become licensed. Second, the Jersey Devil partners are in error when they assert that the A.I.A...
...sweltering helicopter hangar at a naval station in Florida, faced by more than a thousand tearful mourners, Ronald Reagan performed one of those tasks he does best. Honoring young Americans who have lost their lives in one of their country's fitful attempts to assert itself in a troubled world has, alas, become for him a practiced ritual. Speaking somberly of the latest tragedy, and of the latest set of victims he called heroes, the President asked, "Why did this happen...
...accent and a gush of words parodying everyone from a West Indian psychic to a building inspector. That it is good fun to watch him talk his way into and out of trouble, past authority figures both petty and grand, is beyond dispute. That he can assert his brilliance while retaining his character's lovability in these encounters is a little miracle of the performer's art. That he could move beyond riffing and sustain a long comic line if he dared seems a possibility worth exploring...
...term to classify the films "has no pejorative connotation," and to require that they be registered under that law does not chill First Amendment freedoms. The dissenters complained that the majority reasoning smacked of newspeak. Wrote Justice Harry Blackmun: "It simply strains credulity for the court to assert that 'propaganda' is a neutral classification...