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Kirkpatrick, who is the President's representative on the commission, is expected to be one of its driving forces. In a speech last week, she stressed that Communist regimes "can be overturned" and the spread of Marxism should not be considered irreversible. Robert Strauss, the blunt Texan who is a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is likely to be the most prominent voice from outside the Administration among the appointed members. When phoned on Sunday night and offered the position, Strauss, who served as President Carter's special envoy to the Middle East, turned...
...Rainbow Warrior is a tough old British trawler whose blunt bow has frequently poked into waters where it has not been welcome. It belongs to Greenpeace, an international environmental group that opposes whaling. Last week Greenpeace carried out its most daring protest yet. The ship narrowly escaped being captured, but seven Greenpeace members, six Americans and one Canadian, were detained by Soviet authorities...
...they kill the children to spare them the pain of growing up without their parents. Lately police have found dozens of bodies in the forests around Mount Fuji. People travel from all over Japan to commit suicide there. The place has been named "Suicide Forest." The police have posted blunt notices there that killing oneself is not romantic, that bodies are eaten by animals or decay and can be smelled 50 meters away...
...find out why they are losing male voters." However, White House sources admit that women's issues have become a matter of high-level concern. Responsibility for dealing with the gender gap has been turned over to Deputy Chief of Staff Mike Deaver with orders, say sources, to "blunt it-by substance and symbolism...
Monday. The Justice Department launched the Administration's first school-desegregation suit, charging that Alabama has maintained a system of racial discrimination at its public colleges and universities. In blunt language, the suit filed in U.S. District Court in Birmingham alleged that Governor George Wallace and state education officials "perpetuate an unlawful dual system of higher education based on race." The Justice Department will also soon file suits against two school districts...