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...that the current administration is on the wrong side of the Central America issue--but it is not up to me or Baer to scare the daylights out of those who disagree with us by dropping unidentified phony draft notices in their mailboxes. I wonder if Baer would cheer if the campus pro-life movement got a list of all undergraduate women who have had abortions, and then sent them phony letters from the president asking them to report downtown for a psychological interview. That would shock these women out of their complacency, right...
Such a puerile cheering section hardly impressed this Princeton visitor who came to cheer his team. If that is what it takes to win games on the Harvard campus, I am very disappointed. I had thought more highly of Harvard. Grenville Cuyler Charlestown
...paranoid. "History is being made, so sit back and enjoy the ride," I want to think. But everybody is in such a good mood it makes me nervous. Every week I use this column to bitch about one thing or another; I'm not used to having something to cheer about. I keep expecting to find a dark cloud inside the silver lining...
...popularly organized protests. For the moment their prime target is the hated Zhivkov, who is widely accused of arrogance, corruption and a czarlike accumulation of personal wealth. Said Slavcho Trenski, a Central Committee member: "Bulgaria became a hunting reserve for the President." Communist leaders may buy time and cheer hearts with a modicum of reform, but it is all too possible that they also could be surprised by the chain reaction that arises from the very exhilaration of new freedoms...
...obligation to try to frame a coordinated policy. Alas, that calls for a vision of a new European order -- and "the vision thing" has never been George Bush's forte. So far, his Administration has shown no inclination to do anything except stand on the sidelines and cheer. Some Bush officials argue that it is all Washington needs...