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...crusade continues nonetheless. Kirkpatrick Sale kicked off the anticelebration with his anti-Columbus tome, The Conquest of Paradise. The group Encounter plans to celebrate 1992 by sailing three ships full of Indians to "discover" Spain. Similar merriment is to be expected wherever a quorum gathers to honor...
...Buchanan contends that the reds were the only bad guys worth fighting; as soon as they are licked, the U.S. should "disengage" from all remaining messes across the oceans. Ted Galen Carpenter advocates "strategic independence . . . free from the dangerous and expensive burdens of obsolete security commitments." Jeane J. Kirkpatrick sees a chance for the U.S. finally to become a "normal country in a normal time," turning inward to deal with its many problems at home...
...Star Wars missile-defense system. Decision making occasionally stagnated not only because of intra-Cabinet disputes, but also because his advisers often had to rely on the President's body language as a code for intentions Reagan refused to articulate. The supporting cast speaks candidly in these pages. Jeane Kirkpatrick recalls an agonizing conflict over policy toward Nicaragua, and Reagan's role: "Just absent. Just not there...
...quarterly Academic Questions, sponsors regular conferences and has affiliates in 20 states; membership has almost doubled in the past year and is growing at the rate of 25 applications a week. Among the roster of luminaries: Duke political scientist James David Barber, Harvard sociobiologist Edward O. Wilson and Jeane Kirkpatrick, former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. The reason for such interest, says Clark's Sommers, is that liberals as well as conservatives now worry about an "environment of intimidation" that has forced some professors to tape their lectures as a safeguard against bias charges. "It's the opposite," she says...
...hunt. The protesters contended that there was no proof that Yellowstone bison are a danger to livestock. The strain of brucellosis found in bison may not be virulent enough to pose a significant risk to domestic cattle. "They're making policy without data," charges biologist and bison researcher Jay Kirkpatrick. Says Pacelle: "If people want to graze cattle on the Yellowstone ecosystem, they need to assume some limited risk...