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Less an orphanage than a prison the Sacred Heart likely doesn't use Dr. Spock as a consultant. Piper won't eat his food, will he? Forget what Dr. Joyce Brothers and Donahue say, and get ever-resourceful disciplinarian Mr. Kurtz (Murphy Dunne). Wielding a Duracell-powered cattle-prod, Dunne drives the kids into the meditation room, a meat freezer with carcasses as wall décor. There, Piper meets his fellow prisoners: Mouse (Michael Hentz), Whitey (Joey Coleman), Blackie (Christopher Brown,) and Joey (Pamela Segall...
...allies began registering deep disapproval. In a supposedly confidential letter to some Latin American countries that promptly leaked in Colombia, French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson offered, "in cooperation with one or more European countries," to help sweep the mines from Nicaraguan ports. It was a clumsy play intended to prod Washington into adopting a less bellicose policy in Central America. No European country expressed interest in his proposal. But the concern the letter indicated was real. Said Cheysson last week: "If one accepts it [mining] in one part of the world, there is no reason not to accept...
White House aides, adapting to his mellow managerial style, seldom prod the President, nor he them. Instead, Reagan waits for an amiable consensus to develop among his advisers, who work within the boundaries of Reagan's ideology. Except for his unbudging devotion to a military buildup and opposition to tax increases, he often accepts uncritically his advisers' recommendations. Such openness has cured Reagan of certain ideological tics: he now understands, for instance, that the International Monetary Fund is no mere Third World boondoggle. Yet his grasp of important issues is often shaky and, even more troubling, he seems...
...signatures below a petition calling for salary cuts, greater individual responsibility on the part of representatives and an end to the abuses perpetrated by the Speaker. Though rejected as unconstitutional tampering with the internal affairs of the House by the Supreme Judicial Court of the Commonwealth, the petition helped prod the legislators into action. Five measures, including mandatory ratification of all leadership and chairmen appointments; a new procedure for discharge of bills lost in "Siberian" committees; and a clause requiring that bills be made available in print 24 hours prior to debate (to avoid the old railroading ways) have...
...volunteer force. Americans expect national pride to draw enough youngsters into service, but such volunteerism is not universal. Elsewhere, including nearly all of Europe, conscription is the rule. In the U.S., about 6,000 new recruits, 600 of them women, are signing up every week. High unemployment is one prod. But there is another, probably more important reason: a Pentagon recruitment official calls it "a renewed spirit of patriotism...