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Lyndon Johnson said that American troops were fighting the Communists in Viet Nam so that later generations would not have to fight them on American shores. Now, 90 miles from the sand of Florida, 3,000 Soviet combat troops are deployed. Will the generation born in the 1960s have to do just what Johnson wanted to avert...
...John Paul, the tour was an opportunity to encourage American Catholics to tackle the social and religious problems that he considers most disturbing in Western society. Predicted a Vatican official on the eve of the trip: "The Pope is a born leader, and he will offer the American people the leadership for which they hunger...
...early stages, the journey was providing still more evidence that this Pope, with his obvious delight in people and lack of formality, would not be bound by custom and precedent. Once more, John Paul II was proving that he was exactly as his aide described him: a born leader...
...Connally was indeed the most formidable personality in the Cabinet. Highly intelligent, superbly endowed physically, he looked and acted as if he were born to lead. He was not timid, nor did he lack courage. "You will be measured in this town," he said to me once, "by the enemies you destroy. The bigger they are, the bigger you will be." Connally relished combat. Whatever one might think of his views, he was a leader...
Title IX, you might or might not recall, was born back in 1972 when the folks down in Washington decided that men and women ought to have equal opportunities to participate in athletics. Last December, in an attempt to explain these regulations, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare--that giant bureaucratic machine which oversees Title IX -- issued more regulations. Those new proposals were originally scheduled to go into effect in April; then HEW said in July; but now, sad to say nobody in Washington seems to know when they will take effect...