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...live in a time when academic skills and orientation confer an advantage. In other times, other skills i.e. hunter, horseman, archer, etc, were more valuable[sic]. High academic achievers must realize, however, that they are in the minority in this country and certainly in the world as it is currently structured. Those of us with education can either put down our fellow man or reach down to insure that each has an opportunity to fulfill his destiny...
...Washington announced that it will confer in Vienna this week with the Soviet Union on Middle East issues. It was the first time the U.S. had scheduled a meeting with the Soviets to formally take note of their views on the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1977, when the two sides jointly called for an international conference in Geneva under United Nations auspices. That initiative was superseded by Anwar Sadat's historic trip to Jerusalem...
...Vienna meeting grew out of an offer made by Reagan last September in his address to the U.N. General Assembly for U.S. envoys to confer periodically with their Soviet counterparts about various crisis regions around the world. The President reiterated this proposal during a White House meeting with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko four days later. The U.S. side in Vienna will be led by Richard W. Murphy, Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs; the U.S.S.R. delegation will be headed by his equivalent in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, Vladimir Polyakov. These meetings consist primarily...
...major strategic buildup in U.S. military might, he had known and trusted Weinberger from California days. The two had remained close even after Weinberger left to work in Washington. Weinberger kept Reagan's photograph on his desk, and on occasional weekends flew across the nation to Sacramento to confer with the Governor...
...might be accepted. It is rarely "accepted"; we aren't here to accept or reject, we're here to be amused. The more dazzling, personal, unorthodox, paradoxic your assumptions (paradoxes are not equivocations), the more interesting an essay it is likely to be. (If you have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we, all like to be called assistants" net "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your blue book, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders...