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Even if Reagan can line up political support in Congress and the country for his program, the U.S. will find it difficult to achieve the stability it seeks in Central America. The Salvadoran army is in trou ble, weakened by a corrupt and generally incompetent officer corps. Until recently the army was no more than an overgrown police force that kept 9-to-5 hours, five days a week, in its halfhearted struggle against the leftist guerrillas, and this attitude is changing only very slowly. The commanders had refused to adopt counterinsurgency tactics, like using small mobile units to pursue...
...searching for an alternative to the dizzying national crisis that has brought school closings, gang rapes, and factory shutdowns to their home towns. Many have already found their answer in Falwell and his friends. But many others sense that his answers are too simple--that socially irresponsible corporations and corrupt politicians, not gays and pointy-headed liberals, are to blame. They need articulate leadership. And that doesn't mean the spiritually lifeless neo-liberalism of Gary Hart...
...within a company. Editorialists and protesters may feel uncomfortable with or distrust power (perhaps not least because they have so little), but shares do mean voting power. The people who make decisions in companies are not only visible, but often have Harvard ties themselves. Not everyone in business is corrupt, just as not everyone in journalism is cynical, and working with corporate leaders to change the rules is, I think, much more moral and effective than quitting the fight...
...opposition to ROTC stems from feelings that association with the Pentagon puts a moral stain on the University. This view, based largely on the original impetus for ROTC's expulsion--its association with the United States' morally bankrupt adventure in Vietnam--presupposes that there is something ineradicable corrupt and oppressive about the American military. It overlooks the potentially salutary influence that liberal arts students may exert on the armed forces. Broadening America's officer corps to include graduates of schools like Harvard will make the military more representative of society as a whole, and will have a leavening effect...
...Subcommittee. In an emotional Senate speech, Inouye disputed the Administration's thesis that the Salvadoran guerrillas represent a Cuban-and Soviet-backed military thrust to produce a revolutionary domino effect in the U.S.'s backyard. He described the 22,000-member Salvadoran armed forces as violent and corrupt, and urged the Salvadoran government to open negotiations "with all parties to the conflict" before any additional U.S. military assistance is provided...