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...important political role in the years to come. Congress thankfully blocked the arms sales, but the blunders continued. Embassy officials criticized human rights workers, explaining that a Peronist victory would best serve American interests. In November, just one month after Alfonsin's election, Robert Schweitzer, an official with the Inter-American Defense Board, slipped into Argentina to meet with top military officials, without telling the new leaders. This enraged Alfonsin--and rightly so--enough that the United States lifted the arms ban, for lack of anything better to do. But the move was too late...
...reluctance to debate publicly is a key issue for the demonstrators Silvers said the protestors felt that while both sides are able to put out literature detailing their positions it does not amount to an "intellectual inter change...
...timed pre-election love-in with the Chinese. Ronald Reagan is trying to recapture the effect Richard M. Nixon made when he became the first U.S. premier to pay his respects to our One Billion Red brothers, and this week's trip should be replete with pathetic scenes of inter-ideological friendship, numerous pictures of Nancy and Ronald deftly maneuvering their chopsticks over bowls of rice and chop suey, and enough symbolism to make even TV executives retch...
...some Mason Fellows question the need for a trip at all, especially to a developing country. "A more interesting trip would have been to Washington D.C." one of the Fellows argues. "It would have been more profitable to go to the World Bank, the I.M.F. or the Inter-American Development Bank, or the United Nations in New York...
...prime lyric invention; and the color has a resonant, hallucinated distinctness that brings early Mird to mind. Balthus would eventually paint some of the best landscapes of his time. The pick of them, perhaps, is Larchant, 1939, with its luminous sheet of sky and its mellow, precise inter-lockings of building, field and mound...