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Only the Soviet Union, Viet Nam's principal mentor, came to Hanoi's defense. Pravda announced that the Kremlin supported Viet Nam's "constructive proposals for a solution of the refugee problem," including "arrangements for the lawful, well-organized and safe departure of those who want to leave the country." Besides, it added gratuitously, the refugee problem was rooted in the period when "U.S. imperialism dominated the south of Viet Nam." In point of fact, that is not true; the enmity between the Vietnamese and their Chinese countrymen is an ancient one, and Hanoi's policy...
...Mentor. Captain Nathan Brittles' habit of speaking his mind has cost him his career. Now he must retire, and he has ridden out to receive the farewell salute at a half-forgotten frontier garrison in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon. There is a huskiness in his voice as he speaks his credo: "Never apologize and never explain-it's a sign of weakness...
...told the 60 reporters and photographers on his plane that he would need to "contain my emotion" during the trip. As soon as the papal jet landed, black-robed Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, 77, the Primate of Poland, mounted the steps into the plane. John Paul's shrewd former mentor has maneuvered for three decades to guide the Polish church through the darkest days of Stalinist repression into an era of uneasy coexistence with the country's Communist rulers. The extent of the church-state detente was immediately apparent: figurehead President Henryk Jablonski came to the airport to welcome...
...Like his mentor L.B.J., Jones is more interested in advancing by compromise than confrontation. After whining a seat in Congress from an affluent and largely Republican district of Tulsa in 1972, he was assigned to the tax-writing Ways and Means Committee in 1974. When the tax-cut bill bogged down in the committee last summer, Chairman Al Ullman asked Jones to see if he could find a compromise. Jones pieced together a combination of general tax reductions and capital-gains cuts that won the committee's endorsement. When the legislation came to the House floor...
...really. His intention was "to write plain English, Anglo-Saxon root words and short sentences for readers of the Times, who were suffocating on polysyllabic, Latinate English." If he had models, he says, they were E.B. White's "Talk of the Town" pieces for The New Yorker and his mentor at the Times, James Reston. Says he: "Reston taught the Times to write English...