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...easy answers. Yet at the same time there are myths that should be dispelled in order to understand the situation better. To repeat the obvious does not make it any less true: the root of the Salvadoran dilemma is inequity--political, economic, social not communism. Which is not to assert the angelic nature of the Left. There are plenty of Marsist guerrillas who by not means constitute the panacea for EI Salvador. Still, the left is pluralist. And its voice remains too strong and popular to be muffled successfully...
...letter to President Reagan, Allan M. Maxam of the Medical School's Dana Farber Cancer Institute explained that the films "are about destructive agents-hydrogen bombs and acidic rain-that could kill trillions of living organism. We assert that the Canadian films are statements of this profound concern and as such can not be propaganda...
...third period could prove pivotal for the icemen, because after two lack-adaisical stanzas they began to assert themselves. They played the wide-open game that is their trademark as they out-scored the Spartans 3-1. The consensus in the Crimson locker room was that to night's series final would be much different from the first two periods of last night's contest...
...eastern bloc countries. An occasional book, like Hedrick Smith's The Russians, provides a brief, fascinating peek behind the veil, but for the most part a state of uneasy ignorance prevails. And when Western leaders claim one day that the Soviet Union is a crumbling grant only to assert the next that the country has achieved nuclear superiority over the United States and Western Europe combined, ignorance gives way to confusion and fear...
...issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education last month, the president of the Educational Testing Service. Gregory R. Anng, joined Southern University System President Jesse N Stone and other Black college presidents to assert that the regulations present "a disservice to blacks and other Americans who aspire to higher education and the pursuit of intercollegiate athletics...