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...object of an ideological tug-of-war in the Politburo. Party Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, a hard-liner who died last January, is believed to have done his best to block the production, while Brezhnev Protege Konstantin Chernenko apparently intervened to save the play. As if to dispel any notion that the leadership was divided in its feelings, virtually the entire top rung of the Politburo, including Brezhnev, showed up for a performance early last month. In what may be the start of a period of transition, Shatrov's courageous play is a sign that some voices are speaking...
...Chomsky has released a collection of provocative essays that seems likely to unleash the critics once more. Toward a New Cold War chronicles American foreign policy in the 1960s and '70s; Chomsky attempts to dispel the notions that the United States is in triennially "good" and that it prized democracy more than other nations. Yet his analysis unmistakably leads one to the conclusion that America is inherently "evil"; by trying to show that the United States is no better than its adversaries, Chomsky actually make it look worse. This tragic flaw greatly weakens what is otherwise often a painfully accurate...
Once again President Ronald Reagan was under pressure to convince skeptics that his Administration has only one, consistent foreign policy. And the reason he needed to dispel doubts was a disturbingly familiar one: seemingly contradictory statements put forward by Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and their spokesmen. First, the President last week dashed off a "Dear Menachem" letter to Prime Minister Begin, reassuring Israel's leader that there had been no cooling of U.S. friendship toward his country, no matter what impression Begin might have got from Weinberger's trip to Arab countries...
...group of Black students at Eliot House is trying to "dispel myths" that Eliot presents an "uncomfortable" atmosphere for Blacks, in an effort to attract minorities before freshmen submit their housing preferences a week from Friday...
...documentation proved the score was five-to-one in my favor. I was right on five of them," the President told the nation. Never mind that his own press office refused to release that "documentation"; the President's own advisors acknowledged they had scheduled the conference so Reagan could dispel doubts about his credibility, not clear up specific issues...