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Kuhn, who also financed the event, will be partially reimbursed by the Boston branch of the nationwide creative anachronism organization. None of the lecturers, artisans, or performers were paid for their services...
...course, the World Court, the judicial branch of the United Nations, has no real power. No enforcement branch follows up its rulings. No country is bound to abide by its pronouncements. Like the rest of the United Nations, the World Court is a good idea that has run up against an insurmountable obstacle: a nationalistic parochialism that makes true global community impossible...
...Lebanon that claimed 241 American lives and, ultimately, forced a U.S. withdrawal from Lebanon. Yet last week, on two occasions, the President chose to amend that judgment radically and somewhat petulantly, blaming Congress for the most serious U.S. foreign policy failure of his Administration. Reagan also faulted the Legislative Branch on its performance in other foreign policy issues, including Central America, evidently succumbing to a time-honored tradition of incumbent Presidents during years divisible by four: if something goes wrong, run against Congress...
...Mondale over foreign and defense questions is in the tradition of Democratic primaries. In 1968, for instance, Antiwar Candidate Eugene McCarthy helped persuade President Lyndon Johnson not to run again by nearly upsetting him in New Hampshire. Because foreign affairs are more exclusively the province of the Executive Branch than are domestic matters, campaign promises are taken more seriously by voters-and by America's allies. A British diplomat has traveled on the Hart plane to observe the candidate on the stump. On an eight-day tour of the U.S. (see following story), French President François Mitterrand...
...servant of the President owes his chief the truth." In his forthcoming book, Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, to be published this month by Macmillan, the former Secretary of State serves up the truth, at least as he sees it, with the bark off. He describes an Executive Branch marked by guerrilla warfare and backbiting, and portrays himself as an "outsider" up against "an Administration of chums...