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...dangerous irony facing not only the Italians but also the American, French and British troops in the Multi-National Force (MNF). By doing their job as peace keepers, the approximately 5,400 members of the MNF are being drawn with seeming inexorability into the country's increasingly chaotic civil...
...unrest prompted some serious soul searching in Washington. President Reagan is expected to stop in the Philippines during a five-nation swing through East Asia now scheduled for Nov. 2 to Nov. 16. The chaotic aftermath of Aquino's death, however, has raised questions about Reagan's personal safety during the visit, and about the political wisdom of appearing to endorse the faltering and increasingly unpopular Marcos. White House planners canceled the outdoor events on the President's proposed agenda in the Philippines, and they also reduced the duration of his visit from two nights...
Historian Roy Franklin Nichols was not describing our time. He was writing about America's chaotic years before the Civil War; this excerpt is from his classic work The Disruption of American Democracy, published in 1948. For some students of today's politics, there are alarming echoes. The issues are different, but a paralyzing partisanship is stronger today than at any other time in the past 30 years, fanned daily by the President and the six announced Democratic contenders, whose followers pick up on the rancorous debate and drag it into Congress's deliberations...
...Record, begun in 1969, has been instrumental in changing preservation from the concern of the proverbial little old ladies in tennis shoes to a powerful citizens movement. This movement recognizes that there are no more frontiers in America and that people can no longer "Go west" to escape our chaotic urban environment. Rather, we must bring some order, stability and livability to the urban sprawl. We need urban conservation as much as we need to preserve our natural resources...
...proud of explanatory journalism these days, but I think a couple of convictions is a wonderful way to explain the problem." In the final installment of his regular Sunday editorial-page column, McMullan skipped through a few farewell niceties, then unleashed a parting attack on the chaotic overdevelopment of Miami's congested downtown area. Said Bill Long, the Herald's chief of correspondents: "He was tough as nails right up to his last edition...