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...statements on Poland." A Vatican official describes the Pope's views on El Salvador to be threefold: to prevent bloodshed, encourage social reform and avoid the emergence of "another Cuba." Neither the bishops nor the Reagan Administration would disagree with those goals; the question is how to attain them...
...Heiig's ranking deputy, to the basement of the White House West Wing brought the former California jurist from relative obscurity to one of the most important jobs in the Administration and immediately raised questions about his future. Would Clark become a rival to Haig? Would he attain as much rank and prestige as the White House troika, altering the tenuous balance among Edwin Meese, James Baker and Michael Deaver...
...presidential palace. That theory justified escalation after escalation for 12 bloody years, through more than 57,000 American and an estimated 1.5 million Vietnamese deaths. Ultimately, we were in Vietnam not to "win" the war--for Tet hammered home the realization that this was unrealistic--but to attain "peace with honor," a euphemism for an agreement which would allow us to withdraw our troops and preserve face...
...that the Socialists now can count on labor's support. He claimed that restive trade-union leaders in West Germany are demanding that Bonn follow the French example and create 1 million new jobs. The Frenchman argued that a certain amount of government intervention is necessary to attain long-term goals, such as the restructuring of ailing industries...
Schiller, long before silicon chips, believed that man could attain Mortality through Play. Man would play. He would develop his aesthetic senses and grasp Beauty, even the Sublime. The revolutions of the 19th century would not occur: "No privilege, no autocracy of any kind, is tolerable where taste rules, and the realm of aesthetic semblance extends its sway." The California hot-tub view of history...