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...knows precisely who runs the country. The 21-member Military Council for National Salvation is largely a figurehead group. Instead, General Jaruzelski relies on a small kitchen cabinet of advisers. The government is rent by factionalism. Supporters of Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski, who is thought to be a liberal, and those of Party Hard-Liner Tadeusz Grabski take potshots at each other in the official press...
...realized by his sucessor as a monument to the slain president. White derides those social entitlement programs for producing the inflation and factionalism to which he attributes Ronald Reagan's 1980 triumph. White once celebrated that a poor Jewish boy like himself could rise to become America's premier author on presidential politics. Now he turns on federal programs designed to give today's needy the opportunities he took advantage of. Worst of all, he refuses to acknowledge that he himself has switched from persuasive Democratic cheerleader to cynic. To many, White will now seem guilty of the worst kind...
...acknowledge his own edging towards the political Right in America in Search of Itself, his modesty in declining to give himself a going-away journalistic pat on the back more than makes up for it. White's final election chronicle proves that, no matter what his politics, America's premier author of political romance is retiring at the top of his game...
Kirkpatrick, who wrote her Ph.D. dissertation at Columbia University on Argentina during the Peron years, considers herself the Administration's premier expert on Latin America. Conservative and staunchly antiCommunist, she repaired the U.S.'s ties with Buenos Aires last year and fervently hoped to build a strategic barricade against leftist infiltration in the Western Hemisphere by forging closer links with authoritarian regimes like the military junta in Argentina. Though Haig shares Kirkpatrick's fears about Communist advances in Latin America, he is a political pragmatist who is generally more flexible on foreign policy issues. Having been Supreme...
While the K-School has only recently stepped up its efforts abroad--adding new Third World recruiting teams--it has a long list of illustrious foreign alumni. Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau graduated from the school in 1948; Singapore's Premier Lee Kuan Yew was a fellow at the Institute of Politics in 1968 and 1970; and Mexico's President-elect Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado received...