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...agree that William Pritchard's book on Robert Frost [BOOKS, Nov. 12] succeeds in restoring a positive, plausible view of the man who gave us great narrative and lyric poetry. But as Frost's granddaughter, I must protest the reviewer's harsh tone in depicting my grandfather's handling of family tragedies like his son's suicide. Your review resurrects Lawrence Thompson's literal-minded pseudopsy-choanalysis that I thought the Pritchard biography had laid to rest...
...neglect was the city's strategy for combatting the problem, then the Crimson article should bring an effective end to such an illogical program of prevention. Now well-publicized, signstealing should attract the attention of police who, for too long, have appeared to dispense two types of justice--a harsh one for Cambridge youth, and a forgiving one for Harvard students...
...immediate concern was an ominous decline in Washington's al ready troubled relations with Nicaragua. Though the Administration retreated from a leak made the previous week that a Soviet freighter was delivering MiG fighter jets to the pro-Marxist Sandinista regime, it continued to decry, in unusually harsh terms, the "incessant" buildup of other arms supplies in Nicaragua. Weinberger pointedly compared Moscow's current stockpiling of the country to its step-by-step militarization of Cuba nearly 25 years ago. The U.S. increased surveillance of the Soviet freighter Bakuriani, docked at the Nicaraguan port of Corinto...
...such harsh or public disciplining would be out of character for Reagan. But one way he could signal a fresh interest in arms-control negotiations would be to provide a full definition of a seemingly new approach he alluded to briefly in his address to the United Nations General Assembly in September. The U.S. and the Soviet Union, he said then, should consider entering into "umbrella" negotiations. Administration officials later explained that these would involve lumping into a single set of talks six areas of military negotiations, some old and some new, between the superpowers. They include intercontinental ballistic missiles...
Even though harsh crackdowns had occurred under previous, less embracing "emergencies," the most recent raids were more extensive. The government's stated aim was to pack off criminals who have joined forces with political activists in the slums. But the actual purpose was to spread a climate of fear among slumdwellers, who provide the biggest manpower pool for antigovernment protests: about 70% of the men in slums like La Victoria are unemployed...