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...There is no injustice in the universe," wrote Educator Eileen Marie Gardner in a 1983 paper for the right-wing Heritage Foundation criticizing federal aid for ill-advantaged students. "Those of the handicapped constituency who seek to have others bear their burdens and eliminate their challenges are seeking to avoid the central issues of their lives." Gardner's views might have gone unnoticed but for the fact that she began work last week as a special assistant to Secretary of Education William Bennett. Connecticut Republican Senator Lowell Weicker Jr., the father of a five-year-old son born with Down...
...just another electoral rite in Latin America, replete though it was with rhetoric, euphoria and ill-defined promises. For the first time in 40 years, an elected Peruvian government was in the process of handing over power to another elected government. Although the official results will not be announced for a month, Garcia, leader of the center-left Popular American Revolutionary Alliance (APRA), unofficially captured 48.7% of the vote, a better than 2-to-l lead over his only significant rival, Lima's Marxist Mayor Alfonso Barrantes Lingán, who headed the ticket of the United Left, an agglomeration...
Below all, Seagrave's bright irreverence in portraying Sun Yat-sen as a character from opera bouffe and Chiang as an "ill-tempered bravo" almost contradicts the charges of Machiavellian villainy he wishes to press. The Soong Dynasty brings much pungent material to light; in the end, however, it works less well as an argument with history than as a crackling, made-for-TV story unraveled with fluency and flair. --By Pico Iyer
Such arrangements have been confused or ill defined in the past, as they were when the President was shot four years ago and when other Presidents suffered from long illnesses (see following story). Reagan and his aides knew that the actions they took could set precedents for his successors and perhaps alter, however temporarily, the course of his own presidency...
Summertime is watermelon time, but last week California farmers watched helplessly as more than 1 million melons were crushed, bashed and otherwise dumped. Parts of the crop had been contaminated by pesticide, and nearly 300 people in California, Oregon, Alaska, Washington and Idaho fell ill after eating the tainted fruit. The estimated loss to the melon industry: $6 million...