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...Senate's Foreign Relations Committee but not by its counterpart in the House; the Pakistani arms deal needs majorities in both houses. Congress will probably approve the package, but questions about Reagan's commitment to nuclear nonproliferation will linger. Says one congressional aide: "It is a singularly awkward moment to appear easy on Pakistan's nuclear doings." -By James Kelly...
...comfortable when repeating familiar ideology, envisioning "the first beginning cracks, the beginning of the end" for Communism. On topical foreign policy questions, however, he seemed awkward and unsure. When he tried simultaneously to condemn yet to defend Israel's bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor, he literally lowered his voice. In answer to one question, he made a serious error of fact-calling Syria's SA-6 antiaircraft missiles in Lebanon "offensive" weapons, even though they are defensive...
...mocks his belief in suicide as consolation, recalls his solemn and frantic pursuit of women, and reprints some of his early and awkward literary efforts. In the process, with an artlessness that conceals art, he manages to re-create not only his early self but the epoch that formed...
Organizing for the march entailed presenting himself publicly as an interested party, and Schatz remembers the first awkward announcement. He was taking Government 133. "The Politics of Women's Liberation," and wanted to tack up a poster announcing the march. After posting it on the bulletin board one day before a lecture, Ethel Klein, assistant professor of Government and professor of the course, suggested he announce it to the class. "I thought to myself, 'What!, before all these people?'" But he did, and all went well...
...York, believe they have successfully weathered the transition from naive Radcliffe graduates to women comfortable with the changes that have taken place and those that lie ahead. She writes: "One fine morning, I realized that the two feet I was standing on were not my own. Rectifying this awkward situation has taken a number of years and a lot of quiet screaming, noiseless foot stamping and what some peolle like to call plain hard work." Others are determined to carry on their self-evaluation until they too reach a point where they understand why they made the choices they...