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...peace, as practiced by Duarte. In Nicaragua, a return to the ideals of the Revolution would immeasurably strengthen its case internationally, which is being bolstered now only by Reagan's propensity to wave a big stick. Delaying the elections and then allowing free campaigning would add something more than lip service to the Sandinista professions of adherence to the Contadora process...
...OTHER SPOTS, policy veers toward merely paying lip service to opposing apartheid. Shareholder resolutions and discussions with executives are not to be viewed as means to an end but ways of publicizing Harvard's opinion on the issue. Bok writes: "The University did not adopt this policy because it felt that its actions--or any actions that universities could take--would have a substantial effect on apartheid. Harvard decided on this course of action in the conviction that it should vote shares as conscientiously as possible, even if the effects are only limited." In other words, Harvard must resign itself...
...basic Reagan cartoon is the pompadour and neck wrinkles but also a long upper lip that Conrad calls Irish, almost horsy. Peters at an earlier stage emphasized the wrinkles but "got tired of drawing 400 lines" and discovered "you can put a pompadour on anything and it becomes Reagan." Herblock established the memorable Nixon look-furtive, hunched over, 5 o'clock shadow-but goes easier on his present adversary: Reagan is a "pretty good-looking guy." As cartoonists, they all seem grateful for the mobility in Reagan's face. Mike Peters currently sees Reagan as a "Cheshire...
McPhee's first, albeit somewhat obvious, point is that whereas most nations pay lip service to the idea of armed deterrence, the Swiss pay military service: anywhere from 10 days to more than five months a year, from every male citizen who is physically capable. If you can imagine the United States National Guard being made compulsory for every American, you've begun to understand the Swiss system...
...everyone is friendly, wide awake and ready for action. A response of "Nice dress" to "You like that mascara?" leads, within minutes, to "So I told him, if he wants to see those children, he has to stop tearing them up emotionally." A circle of strangers, all intricately wielding lip pencils, choruses sympathetically, "Baby, I know just what you mean." A dealer from another casino drops in to visit a friend, who looks at the dealer's name tag and says, "Bernadette? Since when?" The real name is Pamela, but, she says, "I'm sick...