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...allow countries in the Western Hemisphere like El Salvador and Honduras to fall under Communist control. Viet Nam or not, the U.S. cannot play the isolationist role when the turmoil is in its own backyard...
...HAVE to get out the facts we have so that people at least will agree on what's happening down there," a State Department spokesman explained in the middle of last week's Administration media extravaganza on the Communist threat in our own backyard: Nicaragua and El Salvador. Once the naive electorate is enlightened, "then we can worry about getting them [that's us] to accept the policy [presumably U.S. intervention]," the official added...
...natural," says Joe Sr. "I'd come home at lunchtime. He was about seven or eight months old. He'd have a ball and a bat in his hands, standing there waiting for me when I came in the door." Out in the backyard, Joe served Joey as both center and receiver. He swayed the tire through which Joey flung the footballs. In those games, the natural child was never anything but the quarterback. No time was wasted punting the ball or running with it. When he was eight, to qualify him for midget football, they lied...
...time young Joe was a Ringgold High Ram, he had asked backyard waivers on his first receiver, and drafted a neighbor who liked to pretend he was Jim Seymour; Montana was Terry Hanratty. Those were Notre Dame's stars at the time. The setting of most of Joe's dreams began to be South Lend...
After devoting 43,000 air miles to international summitry in seven countries, Mitterrand was belatedly paying attention to his national backyard. The interview, conducted by two accommodating TV executives, was an attempt to cast a cloak of presidential conciliation broad enough to reassure his impatient supporters and appease his angry detractors. But it confirmed that neither worsening economic news nor mounting political pressure would deter the new President from fulfilling the sweeping promises made during his campaign...