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...continues to make headlines on occasion: Former members may, for example, sell themselves as born-again Wall Street brokers, or shoot up armored bank trucks and their passengers. With time, it becomes increasingly easy, and even fashionable, to dismiss the unusual attitudes and-actions of the Sixties as merely the source of this ludicrous legacy...
ACSR members wanted to make sure the Corporation did not dismiss the committee's arguments as poorly reasoned, he said. "What they're trying to do is take a position from which the Corporation can't took down." he said...
...also hear stories about Chinese officials who confiscate calligraphies. Mongolians who open cameras and expose film, and Russians who dispute visas because passengers no longer resemble their passport photos. Collecting our passports, the medal-chested officers search our compartments with flashlights, not for contraband, but for bodies. They then dismiss us to change money, U.S. dollar standard, while workers change the dining car and the outside wheels to accommodate the narrower Mongolian track. In the deserted station, the passengers mingle, elated--and shivery. We are relieved by an easy passage through customs, but frightened by the barbed wire and guns...
White House aides dismiss these and several other questionable assertions as gaffes that voters are unlikely to notice, and point out instead that Reagan's general themes are well received. A partisan audience in Richmond interrupted him for applause 26 times in 23 minutes. Even in the recession-ravaged Midwest, it is risky to attack Reagan headon. Says Eric Kozenman, a press aide for Democratic Congressman Bob Shamansky in his reelection race in Ohio: "We don't even like to use the term Reaganomics. We say 'the Administration's policies' are all wrong. That...
...certainly not for the rest of the world, meaning, implicitly, the historical tormentors of Jews, to presume to give moral instruction to the Jewish people. Begin in his combative mode strikes ugly notes. Last week his government even used the dark phrase "blood libel" to dismiss condemnations of the Israeli army's behavior at the camps. The phrase invidiously linked the critics to the medieval anti-Semites who accused Jews of crucifying Christian children and drinking their blood at Passover...