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Wills, a Classics scholar and communitarian, saw Nixon's 1968 election as a sign that Americans--though shaken by events of the late '60s and the system's failure to cope with them--were not yet ready to admit that rugged individualism, which defined their politics and judgments of themselves, was a "cruel hoax". Wills writes...
...National Autonomous University of Mexico (U.N.A.M.) to tighten entrance requirements and increase annual tuition fees from an average of 10 cents to more than $90 a student. Speakers exhorted the government to stop payment on its crippling $100 billion foreign debt, demanded that workers receive hefty pay hikes to cope with the country's 103% annual inflation rate, and prodded officials to show backbone in their dealings with the U.S. Chanted demonstrators: "No to the Yanquis! No to the Yanquis...
intelligent enough to cope with this...
Leaks are to Washington as cars are to Detroit. "Unauthorized disclosures" are the capital's chief commodity, and recently the city has had to cope with a surplus. Before the Senate Intelligence Committee managed to finish its probe of the Iran-contra affair last month, several versions of its report got into circulation prematurely. Minnesota's David Durenberger, the ranking Republican, even slipped the findings to Ronald Reagan; word of that indiscretion also leaked, provoking a minor uproar...
...government was able to come any closer to developing a long-range policy to cope with terrorist kidnapings. The U.S., for its part, indulged in some saber rattling. The Navy ordered the aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy, originally scheduled to leave the eastern Mediterranean in mid-February, to remain on station. The Nimitz, the other carrier in the area, canceled port calls in Italy, France and Spain...