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...East-West Relations. I know that there is widespread American hostility, or at least indifference, to the 1975 Helsinki accords [which, among other things, recognized Soviet domination over Eastern Europe]. That is a grave mistake, at least from two points of view. Including the U.S. and Canada in talks among European nations is an asset of enormous value. And in my opinion there is no other way gradually to relax the opposing European blocs and to involve individual Eastern European states in a direct and autonomous dialogue with the West...
...vote of 35 to 18 last week, El Salvador's newly elected constituent assembly suspended a key element of the country's land reform, thereby raising grave doubts about the future of the program that was initiated only two years ago with U.S. backing. The vote was a victory for the right-wing coalition led by Major Roberto d'Aubuisson. Declared former President José Napoleon Duarte, whose Christian Democrats opposed the measure: "It was strictly a political move to attack the poor people of El Salvador...
...fine for the future, he said, but "we are facing a crisis of the present." Since the Senate Budget Committee "ordered this commission to cut $40 billion," Moynihan complained, "we've been told in advance what we must report." Chimed in Pepper: "People must be in a grave quandary" with talk of $40 billion in cutbacks coming on top of presidential assurances that benefits will be protected. "What are people to believe?" he drawled. "This commission has been compromised." Moynihan was just getting wound up. The Reagan Administration, he fumed, has "terrorized older people into thinking that they...
...grip of a patriotic fever. In the capital, blue-and-white national flags adorned everything from office buildings to shop windows to taxicab antennas. Cafés, shops and hotel lobbies buzzed with excited talk of the latest news. Television shows were repeatedly interrupted by grave-sounding announcers reading war bulletins before the backdrop of the national emblem. Crowds gathered outside newsstands to peruse the latest reports. On the Plaza de la República, women sat in the sun knitting wool socks, caps and scarves for the troops on the islands...
...coming of the cold war soured the old idealism. "Freedom that was a thing to use/ They've made a thing to save," MacLeish wrote bitterly in Brave New World (1948), "And staked it in and fenced it round/ Like a dead man's grave." An appointment to teach English at Harvard in 1949 removed the poet from the public arena. A kindly man, he found that he liked instructing the young and that they liked him. In later years, MacLeish turned toward a new questioning of fundamentals. From the ancient paradoxes of Job he created J.B., which...