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...posture of Kennedy and the indiscriminate military spending of the current Administration. On the domestic front, the party must inject a greater degree of fiscal responsibility into existing social programs. It should not immediately bridle at calls to reassess existing entitlement funding, as the Kennedy wing has so often done. An initiative to ease the looming crisis over Social Security—where the Republicans have abdicated all responsibility, resorting instead to mere sloganeering—would be particularly welcome. The Democratic Party remains the best hope for those who long for an America that tends to its needy...
...screenplay, the bridge on the River Kwai is built by the Japanese during World War II, using British prisoners as a labor force. The British colonel who commands the prisoners eventually falls in love with the bridge. He builds it better than the Japanese could have done without him, as a symbol of what can be accomplished by British “soldiers, not slaves.” So infatuated is he with his wooden love-child that he nearly frustrates an attempt by Allied commandoes to blow...
...team progress so much,” Hazlett said. “The team dynamic has changed as well. We’re a really close team, and I think that has really benefited us. Being able to root for one another and work as a team has done a lot and definitely led to our success.” With the bulk of the team returning in the fall, much will be expected of the defending champions. “I see no reason why we can’t go out and do it again next year...
...Administration has been flirting with the Guatemala regime ever since General Efrain Rios Montt took power in a coup last spring. Reagan wants to end a four-year freeze on arms sales to that country imposed by then-President Carter because of serious human rights violations. Rios Montt has done nothing to deserve the trust that such a change in U.S. policy would indicate. New elections, promised by the Guatemalan leader, are still unsure, and terrorism—particularly from rightist death squads—continues to plague the country. Reagan’s desire—announced during...
Despite the comment and lack of comment, the fact remains that Russia has done something that looks pretty impressive to the average man. A 180 pound ball is a small one, no doubt about that, but what will follow this? A 1,800 pound ball, then a 18,000 pound ball. When the satellites get that big it seems that the Russians might want to put little men in them and give the little men big guns...