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...week's diplomatic process wore on, the Reagan Administration could savor some small gains in Central America. The first came in El Salvador, where Defense Minister José Guillermo Garcia, 49, announced his resignation. For months, Garcia has been the object of increasing frustration for U.S. military trainers and restive officers of the Salvadoran armed forces. An astute politician, Garcia had been helpful to the U.S. in supporting El Salvador's land-reform program and curbing the excesses of right-wing Constituent Assembly President Roberto d'Aubuisson. But on the antiguerrilla battlefront, Garcia fought what...
Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale calls it "one of the most important works of the decade." Says Senator Gary Hart, another Democratic hopeful: "Few books on economics are bold enough to capture one's imagination. This is one." The object of the praise is The Next American Frontier (Times Books; $16.60), a provocative new analysis of America's economic ills by Robert Reich, 36, professor of business and public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Searching for alternatives to laissez-faire Reaganomics, the activist Democrats have found an intellectual mentor in Reich, who argues that Government...
Acting on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Justice Department last week filed suit, in collaboration with California, against 31 of the polluters, including such corporate giants as Stauffer Chemical, Rockwell International, McDonnell Douglas, Weyerhauser and General Electric. Object: to recover the costs of a total cleanup, which is expected to reach $40 million. The Justice Department denied that the suit was instigated by the White House. But as the largest hazardous-waste case ever filed by the Government, it will inevitably appear as an attempt by the Reagan Administration to prove its new toughness on protecting the environment...
...McCloy is Mr. Germany in this country," observes Goldman, noting the statesman's "distinguished" record in bolstering German-American relations. Adds Hale Champion, executive dean of the K-School: "If you object ot McCloy's name on the scholarship, then you'd have to object to Earl Warren on the Supreme Court...
...School, the future leaders of the business world are playing computer games. It's not Pac-Man, but instead students sell "shires," a mythical cross between a shirt and a tire, in a computer-simulated setting. Participants try to make as much fake money as possible, but the overall object is to learn business strategies and techniques...