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...form of a conciliatory foreign policy address. A few days later, Secretary of State George Shultz met with Gromyko in Stockholm to feel out the Soviets' receptivity to a more flexible strategic missile-limitation plan. The meeting was unproductive. Worse still, the Kremlin kept up a steady drumbeat of harsh anti-Reagan rhetoric...
...that state has India's richest, most fertile land, the Sikhs still felt their portion was too small compared with that of neighboring Haryana, the state created at the same time for the Hindus. Therefore, the Akali Dal Party, the political arm of the Sikhs, began an insistent drumbeat of peaceful protest. In 1973 the Akalis passed a resolution setting out various religious and political demands, among them that Punjab's capital, Chandigarh, be made a Sikh capital exclusively, and Amritsar a holy city...
Adding to his drumbeat of nervous-making adjectives ("unsteady," "inexperienced," "naive"), Mondale last week called Hart "uncertain, delayed and confused" on arms control, the "central issue of our time." Hart had only embraced a freeze on most nuclear weapons, Mondale charged, after first supporting a build-down proposal that would allow both sides to build new weapons if they destroyed more old ones. The build-down, insisted Mondale, was "totally at odds" with the freeze. Actually, Hart had carefully conceived positions on arms control until he began doing precisely what he accuses Mondale of doing, posturing for political purpose. Hart...
...Justice Department to throw its weight behind what is a largely spurious charge is nothing short of irresponsible. In a speech at Harvard earlier this week, Eleanor Holmes-Norton, chairman of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under Carter, accused the Reagan Administration of "escalating the drumbeat" of reverse discrimination charges. Her attack is well grounded--the Administration has sided with whites claiming reverse discrimination in suits in Detroit, Memphis, and New Orleans in addition to the Boston and Birmingham cases...
...roommates, Sandy Jencks, was attacking the sterility and lack of relevance of much formal education long before the issue was debated coast to coast. There was a drumbeat of criticism in The Crimson and other forums about all manner of substantive University policy. There were even widespread feelings in 1958 that waxing rich in the corporate world was not a sufficiently useful way to spend one's life...