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...said he was going "with an open mind, to listen and to learn." But when he returned to Washington five days later. Reagan remained as set and predictable in his ways as he was before his departure. The President continues to see the region through a distorting East-West prism; countries are distinguished only by their allegiance to either capitalism or communism The real problems of Latin America--the social, economic and political inequities that affect different nations in different ways--continue to be ignored...
Hatfield understands what most of his GOP colleagues do not: that the Administration is getting a warped view of reality by looking at Guatemala--and for that matter the rest of Latin America--through an East-West prism. Most of Guatemala's problems have nothing to do with the U.S.-Soviet conflict, but are simply the result of decades of social, political and economic inequities. Of course the Soviets and their Cuban allies have taken advantage of the turmoil in Latin America, but only because the U.S. has made it easy for them to do so. By stopping the chaos...
...quarters at the White House, the guests balancing plates of beef stew as they watched the network reports. "Hey, look at that!" he said excitedly when an exit poll showed that half of the voters felt the President's program needed more time to work. This view became the prism through which he interpreted the night's returns. Other than a few individual disappointments ("Gosh darn it," he muttered when Nebraska Governor Charles Thone lost), Reagan was satisfied with the results. "There was nothing to suggest a need to change the basic course," said Counsellor Edwin Meese, expressing Reagan...
...outlet. The tan can be shown off at dinner, served on an 800-Ib. table ($29,920, from Colbert's in Amarillo, Texas). Handmade of Lalique crystal, its base is in the shape of a giant flowering cactus. At its core is a central prism which, according to the blurb, "radiates brilliance upwards to the specially made 60-in. glass top." Add 5% sales tax for Texas residents...
...home in Susquehanna, Pa., four days before he was to have married for the third time. A philosophical fabulist, Gardner wrote a dozen novels (among them, Grendel, 1971; The Sunlight Dialogues, 1972; October Light, 1976) in which he examined age-old questions like freedom vs. license through the prism of a gothic imagination that he said was set working by "the world of Walt Disney. I see those Disney images everywhere-in Dante, in Homer, above all in Chaucer." In On Moral Fiction (1978) he argued fiercely for positive, inspiring writing and charged that, by contrast, "almost all modern...