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POLITICAL buffs will recall how President Bush called on New York voters during the past mayoral campaign to establish a "Republican beachhead" in New York. Republicans failed in this attempt and in several other election contests. What had begun as George Bush's Republican war ended last week as Ron Brown's Democratic two-pointer...
...case with regard to debt. The U.S. has had the luxury over the past 60 years, as a superpower, of not having to worry about its borders, either north or south. In the case of Mexico that is no longer true -- not because the Soviet Union is establishing a beachhead in Veracruz but because in order to maintain the type of relationship with Mexico that the U.S. has had over the past 60 years, the U.S. is going to have to do much more. The U.S. is going to have to pay a higher price in every sense...
...other extreme, On Freedom's Ground takes a look at New York harbor as it might have been before it became a beachhead of the New World. The vision is harsh, deterministic, featuring a wind "which blew/ Not as it chose, but as it had to do." The invasion of humanity is hardly the despoliation of paradise: "Where was the thought of freedom then?/ It came ashore within the minds...
...group that reported at least six sex partners a year were infected. Masters, Johnson and Kolodny admit that their results "cannot be easily generalized" because those studied were not representative of the population at large. Despite this disclaimer, they conclude, "the AIDS virus has certainly established a beachhead in the ranks of heterosexuals, and . . . the rate of spread among heterosexuals will now begin to escalate at a frightening pace...
...Great Communicator. ABC, CBS and NBC refused to broadcast a presidential address on the eve of the vote. Network executives said there was no news in Reagan's 20- minute plea, and in fact, the speech was full of familiar hyperbolic rhetoric: "Nicaragua is being transformed into a beachhead for aggression against the U.S." In a follow-up address, Indiana Democrat Lee Hamilton offered the prevailing House view. The U.S., he said, should wait and see if Nicaragua sticks with the peace process set in motion by last summer before restoring military aid to the contras. "Now is the time...