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Instead Reagan has engaged in a campaign of red-baiting abroad and at home. His penchant for intervention abroad threatens to destabilize the Middle East as well as Central America. His charges that congressmen who opposed the Administration's aid package to the Contras were either supporting communism, or being duped by those who do, echoed those of another great name caller, Senator Joe McCarthy, who campaigned against what he called "a conspiracy so immense" that it extended from Moscow to the heart of the U.S. government...
Gorbachev aggressively reminded Washington that he can be a tough customer. He scoffed at a counterproposal by President Reagan for eliminating medium- range nuclear missiles by 1990 and, along the way, displayed a penchant for bareknuckle bullying reminiscent of Nikita Khrushchev. Indeed, the General Secretary showed little inclination to tone down his anti-U.S. rhetoric. Quoting Karl Marx, he described capitalism as a "hideous pagan idol, who would not drink nectar but from the skulls of the slain." The U.S., he declared, is "the metropolitan center of imperialism." In part such pronouncements were intended to appease the party...
Early in the second period, the Crimson enjoyed a 5-on-3 for 1:32 but was unable to put the puck in. The power play was operating without Fusco and while it retained some of its previous movement, its penchant for finding the little red light switch was missing...
...Accuracy in Academia (AIA) has taken its so-called "operations" into the Ivy League. Last week, the right-wing group telephoned a professor at Princeton to question his choice of course books and his selection of an East German guest lecturer. The AIA "reporter"--no doubt someone with a penchant for rhetorical questions--asked whether the professor "knew the difference between propaganda and politics...
...reminders of the dangers that the country's youthful President, Major General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, faces as he goes about reshaping Nigeria's corrupt and debt-ridden society. The President recently granted a 50-minute interview to TIME Correspondent James Wilde. Throughout, he displayed a ready smile and a penchant for easy laughter. Excerpts...