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...Basque fighting song. It took security guards ten minutes to subdue the demonstrators in an unseemly scene that was carried over national television. Clearly prepared for the outbreak, a composed Juan Carlos turned it to advantage. At one point he smiled mischievously, goading the protesters to sing louder. Then, with order restored, he took command with an eloquent gesture of national reconciliation. "Faced with those who practice intolerance of free expression, I reaffirm my faith in democracy and confidence in the Basque people," he told the cheering audience, and went on to legitimize nonviolent Basque nationalism...
Prayer breakfasts and other public moments of celestial meditation are not bad in themselves, it is just that they seem to grow more numerous, louder and longer with every Administration. It is as if each new President must try to establish a better relationship with God than his predecessor did. An old and wry hand in Washington, who has served five Presidents, claims that there is a direct relationship between how much a President prays in public and how devious he is backstage...
...Republican New Right is not happy with Reagan's Cabinet carpentry. Except for Stockman, the ultraconservatives have been completely shut out so far. Collectively, Reagan's choices announce louder than anything he has said that he intends to run a pragmatic Administration, one not bound by ideology, and the right wing is vocally dismayed. Said Richard Viguerie, a leading hardliner, accurately enough: "It's the kind of Cabinet Jerry Ford or George Bush would have assembled. I'm sick to my stomach. Reagan gave all the winks and signals that he was going...
...these costs, as Secretary ol State Edmund Muskie noted last week, would be "taken out of the hides of the Soviet people." The low-keyed rumbles of discontent in the U.S.S.R. about deaths and injuries suffered by an invasion force of 85,000 in Afghanistan would grow far louder if Soviet troops were bloodied in a Polish occupation...
...month, Zhao once again attends lectures in Harvard Yard. Things are different, he says, looking out the window of his apartment in search of a memory of Cambridge in the late '40s. They use more mathematics in economics classes, and the noise in the Square is much louder. And Zhao is no longer studying for a degree. As a member of this year's class at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism, and the first fellow from the People's Republic, he's come to Harvard for a crash course in the modern world...