Word: experts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fishermen on everything from his wife's recipe for barbecued brook trout to the best rooster necks to use for dry-fly hackles. He serves up his opinions with conviction but also with a gentle good humor, a high threshold for fools and the open-mindedness of an expert. At 66, he says, he still has plenty to learn from the river. "There are no set rules," he says, standing in the Snake, eyes darting upstream. "These are living things. I really think fish are individuals. They have some way of communicating with each other. People want to make...
...sadistic sheriff in Cool Hand Luke was more succinct: pointing to the rebellious prisoner he had just brutalized, he explained, "What we've got here is failure to communicate.") It is the broken-telephone theory of international conflict, and it suggests a solution: repair service by the expert "facilitator," the Harvard negotiations professor. Hence the vogue for peace academies, the mania for mediators, the belief that the world's conundrums would yield to the right intermediary, the right presidential envoy, the right socialist international delegation. Yet Iraq's Saddam Hussein and Iran's Ayatullah Khomeini...
Meanwhile, behind the military shield, Salvadoran government technicians and U.S. Government officials are moving into the territory reclaimed in Operation Goodwill to repair the roads, power lines, bridges and schools destroyed in the F.M.L.N.'s economic sabotage campaign. Says a U.S. military expert: "You can't bring the guerrilla to bay with military means alone...
Operation Goodwill is a step in the right direction, but so far only a modest one. The U.S. military advisers still face formidable obstacles. For one thing, the Salvadoran officer corps will not change overnight. As a U.S. expert puts it, there are still some "weak sisters" in crucial provincial commands. For another, the new, U.S.-inspired tactics and training are severely taxing the resources that Washington has made available in El Salvador. The U.S. military men in the country chafe openly at the Reagan Administration's self-imposed limit of 55 trainers in the country. Says...
...hasty attempt to resolve the issue, the police suggested last week that "scientific" tests on one strand of Lize's hair proved that she was of mixed race. But South Africa's leading expert on hair immediately denounced the tentative finding as "meaningless," arguing that hair samples of infants do not reveal racial characteristics. The government then repudiated the police, calling the test "inconclusive...