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...Israeli-Lebanese agreement after four frustrating months of negotiations. Much more than a signed piece of paper was at stake. Success not only would boost the chances of resuscitating President Reagan's peace plan for Unking the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip to Jordan, but dispel the notion that the Reagan Administration is clumsy in its conduct of foreign affairs...
Talking to a group of guidance counselors in Phoenix, A.C.M. President Charles Neff set out to dispel some myths about his region. The Midwest is not dull. It is not flat. "We do have woods and lakes and rolling hills," he said. His jocularity did not mask his mission. Said one of the counselors: "Any time someone serves you Bloody Marys and screwdrivers at noon, you know they're serious." Neff anticipated questions with a barrage of statistics: 58% of A.C.M.'s graduates find full-time employment within a year after graduation, 25% are enrolled in graduate...
...young reactionaries did, in fact, recede in direct proportion to Ronald Reagan's sinking fortunes. Harvard's vaunted Conservative Club, for example, disappeared altogether from public view after a semester of shrill heckling. But in my eagerness to dispel myth, I had obscured the key aspect of the Harvard undergraduate psyche. Despite the popularity of easy progressive positions--restrain the Reagan arms binge, help poor people, integrate the Law School faculty--most students here are dedicated conformists prone to inward-looking contentment...
...dustup over weapons policy came just as Reagan was trying to dispel a similar impression of disarray on important domestic issues. He spent much of the week grappling with ways to reduce the deficit-swollen federal budget and nudging a blue-ribbon commission toward a compromise on the politically explosive question of restoring the solvency of the Social Security system (see following stories). The air of uncertainty in the capital was heightened by the resignation of Richard Schweiker as Secretary of Health and Human Services, and by word that Tennessee Republican Senator Howard Baker, the Senate majority leader and Reagan...
...earlier hits like "Man With the Child in His Eyes.' The contrast with her old style persists throughout the new album, each song pressing a new experiment in sound or subject matter. For the most part, she experiments with a darker, heavier sound. She seems to want to dispel her soft-rock image, without resorting to an electric guitar. Instead, she alters her singing style and makes frequent forays into non-Western musical styles...