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...hired, minority journalists say, they are caught in an affirmative-action double bind: the same preference that helps them get in also leads white colleagues to doubt their competence. Minority reporters complain that for them there is often no middle ground: if they are not extraordinary, they are considered inferior. Editor James Squires of the Chicago Tribune seemed to validate that charge. Said he: "We get two kinds of minority reporters: superstars capable of doing any kind of story, and those who are there only because they are minorities...
...defeated by political opposition, the Minuteman and the Trident II programs could still expose the Soviet Union to a mirror image of the "window of vulnerability" that so worries Reagan. That vulnerability will be even more acute for the Soviets, since their submarines and bombers are far inferior to those of the U.S. So are Soviet precision-guided munitions, miniaturized guidance systems and other high-tech hardware that proved so devastating in the Falklands and Lebanon...
...history, an estimated 10.8 million voters, out of some 18 million who expressed a preference on the issue, cast ballots advocating a freeze. Although the measures were not legally binding, the Administration opposed the movement on the grounds that a freeze would leave the U.S. in a position inferior to that of the Soviet Union. President Reagan had even argued that the campaign was inspired by people who "want the weakening of America." But in proposals that appeared on the ballots in 39 areas, ranging from individual cities and counties to nine states, the concept triumphed in all but three...
...opposition to the freeze is total and outspoken. The President, along with many arms control and foreign policy experts, believes a freeze is possible only after negotiations with the Soviet Union achieve an actual arms reduction, to a level at which the U.S. would be in no way inferior in nuclear strength. But the White House has not insisted that Republican candidates openly support the Administration's position. John Dolinsky, a leader of Californians for a Strong America, one of the few groups fighting the freeze, complains that White House aides have told state party leaders to place first...
Updike took a two-room apartment in Boston in 1974. His writing during this period suggested considerable anguish. The two novels A Month of Sundays (1975) and Marry Me: A Romance (1976) were widely regarded as inferior Updike, self-indulgent and self-lacerating accounts of sex and guilt. Not everyone agrees with these judgments. (One of Updike's virtues is his prolificity; he has produced enough books to fuel arguments of all kinds.) Judith Jones, his editor at Knopf, thinks A Month of Sundays one of his best, precisely because it was written "during the darkest part of Updike...