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...aura of urgency recalled former Secretary of State Alexander Haig's controversial efforts to cast El Salvador's rebellion as a major East-West conflict. After Haig left office last summer, the Administration lowered the volume on its talk about Soviet subversion and the threat posed to the U.S. Yet officials made it clear last week that the Administration's basic view on Central America remained the same. Reagan depicted the Salvadoran conflict in its starkest ideological colors. "We believe that the government of El Salvador is on the front line in a battle that is really...
...qualified her to appreciate the performance. Later that year she followed the young royal couple's first official tour, to Wales. Says Cronin of that road show: "It gave me a hint of the energy and persistence one needs to gather information on a royal family preserving the aura of the kings and queens of old." For this week's cover, Cronin learned even more about perseverance by watching the watchers of the royals. "The Fleet Street reporters and photographers are a breed unto themselves," she reports, "devilishly competitive, clever and professional. The chase...
Glenn, who is running second to Mondale in the opinion polls (41% to 17%, according to a Harris survey of Democratic voters this month), has an all-American aura that seems almost undiminished since that day 21 years ago when his Friendship 7 capsule re-entered the atmosphere. He has been neither appealing directly to individual voter blocs nor organizing grass-roots volunteers. His aides feel that his celebrity makes it possible for him to win the primary obstacle run by appealing to a broad cross section of voters. "The interesting question is whether it's possible to have...
Each year George Washington gains more luster in our reveries on how we got where we are. Our sophisticated scholarship and painstaking restoration, which so often dismantle heroes, have revealed the human dimensions of the father of the country but have failed to dim the aura of greatness that clings to Washington, whose 251st birthday we mark next week...
...intersection where some residents put up a defense against attacking militiamen, a bomb crater is filled with old auto tires and a rusted tank trap. Raw sewage oozes up to create a black slick on the muddy rain water that covers the street. The major exception to the aura of neglect is a small corner of Shatila that is under the care of a United Nations relief agency. Elsewhere, Norwegian and Austrian relief workers have supplied materials to residents for rebuilding their homes and opened a clinic and a kindergarten on the site of similar facilities formerly operated...