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Perhaps this analysis of White House maneuvering explains an extraordinary series of disclosures scored recently by The Wall Street Journal and especial by Joel Brinkley of The New York Times. Secret and important intelligence reports trickle out with suspicious regularity Unnamed sources contradict even discredit, the Administration line. Are White House aides, along with career CIA and State Department officials worried about their own futures trying to sidestep the political morass of Central America by preventing Reagan from being Reagan in Nicaragua...
First, one month ago in two articles the Journal, Administration and CIA officials described in unusual detail the of the four-year-old contra program. Among the most important disclosures: American CIA agents have been directly involved, flying and firing from helicopters, in attacks on Nicaragua. And CIA optimism about the contras' prospects laded quick Internal 1982 memos predicted the fall of Managua by Christmas...
Between 1936 and 1940, Schwab edited the journal of international poetry. Yggdrasil His appreciation of the German Romantics rests in particular on what he views as their spiritual assimilation of the Oriental. His treatment of Herder discerns in the pre-Romantic philosopher an awakened appreciation for primitive wisdom, the original versus the classic in poetry. Herder and Schelling are seen as the primary influences on Novalis's later search for a universal religion. He also discover overlays of Oriental motifs and values in "The Iranian Nieztsche" and "The Buddhism of Wagner...
...Iacocca's "showmanship" distasteful. "Somewhere between the excessive caution of most businessmen and the excessive bravado of Iacocca," Riesman says, "there is a position of responsible corporate leadership." A recent article in the New Republic suggests that Iacocca's mythic managerial skills may be seriously overrated. The Wall Street Journal, Iacocca's longtime antagonist, recently called him the "Motor City's most famous motor mouth." On the subject of trade conflicts with the Japanese, he does in fact speak somewhat promiscuously. Says an ex-colleague from Ford, where Iacocca worked for 32 years: "He doesn't know when to shut...
...study, published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine, compared the results of mastectomy with a far less radical operation called lumpectomy, in which only the breast tumor and a small amount of surrounding tissue are removed. The research involved 1,843 patients, each of whom had a tumor that measured no more than 4 cm (or about 1 1/2 in.) in diameter. The participants agreed to be assigned randomly to three different treatment groups. About one- third underwent a mastectomy, one-third had a lumpectomy, and another third received radiation treatment in addition to a lumpectomy...