Word: auge
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hugh Sidey's brilliant analysis, "Assessing a Presidency" [Aug. 18], should be required reading for every registered voter. It clearly illustrates the fact that our nation's problem sits in the Oval Office. We need Ronald Reagan, a Republican Congress and a return of American strength and sanity...
...your Essay on "The Decline and Fall of Oratory" [Aug. 18]: great speeches require great men. Rhetoric is a set of tools that anyone can use; the problem is not with the tools, but with the people who use them...
Your story on New York City [Aug. 18] states that Mayor Edward Koch "has not learned that the last thing hopeless people have need of is a realist." On the contrary, what they need is a mayor who is in touch with the reality of the city's fiscal situation. We can only hope that in the future, fewer politicians will succumb to the lesson you ascribe to Koch...
...article on Central America [Aug. 18] whetted my appetite for more information. It seems downright embarrassing for our nation to have shown so little concern for or interest in its own neighbors...
...refugees was getting worse. In Indiantown Gap Military Reservation, Pa., one of four camps where Cubans are held until sponsors can be found to give them homes, 1,000 troopers of the 82nd Airborne Division stood guard over 4,000 Cubans last week to prevent a repetition of the Aug. 5 riot in which 16 camp officials and 42 Cubans were injured, one fatally. In Fort McCoy, Wis., homosexual attacks and knife fights have broken out among the 5,300 Cubans housed in the camp; many are refugees under 18 who face continued idleness in what they view...