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...mark of a first-rate intelligence, as F. Scott Fitzgerald said, is the capacity to entertain two contradictory propositions in one's mind simultaneously without going crazy. The Viet Nam era had its psychotic moments. It may be a sign of American mental health, and intelligence, that the nation is ready to try to repay its complicated debt to the men and women who left their youth in Viet Nam, doing what their country asked them to do. Those who went to Viet Nam (whether they were volunteers, or draftees dragged there kicking and screaming) suffered through a violent complexity...
...FitzGerald gains power...
...three weeks after Ireland's inconclusive general election, incumbent Prime Minister Charles Haughey and Opposition Leader Garret FitzGerald raced to form a new government. Last week FitzGerald won. He crafted an ingenious pact between his own pro-business Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) party and the ideologically distant, pro-union Labor Party. The result: a razor-thin majority of three seats in the Irish Dáil (parliament)-and a coalition so vulnerable it will take all of FitzGerald's wizardry just to last out the summer...
...block of Ulster's Maze Prison, where Doherty is now in the seventh week of a hunger strike. His death or Agnew's resignation would cause by-elections that could be won by Haughey and his Fianna Fail (Band of Destiny) party, thereby weakening FitzGerald's government still more. That possibility has forced both Irish leaders to reconsider their positions on Ulster. The former Prime Minister has begun criticizing the unyielding tactics of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. At the same time, FitzGerald has reversed a pledge to give priority to Ireland's ailing economy...
...Fitzgerald could not be reached for comment yesterday. Christopher Morris, dean of students for the summer school, said yesterday he was "not familiar" with the incident, and Harvard had not yet taken any action as a result...