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...While the Reagan Administration has given global unilateralism both doctrinal and operational standing that it did not have before, the phenomenon has been around for decades. After World War II, the U.S. found itself with global interests, global responsibilities and global reach. It also had in the Soviet Union an adversary of far-reaching ambitions and capabilities. Yet American alliances were, and remained, essentially regional. In the '50s and '60s, the U.S. worked hard to give its allies a sense that they were partners in the U.S.'s worldwide mission...
Aircraft carrying such radar-jamming devices, as well as HARM missiles to take out radar sites, were the first to reach the target cities, approaching at 6:54 p.m. Precisely at 7 p.m., the squadron of A-6 fighters roared over Benghazi from the Gulf of Sidra and began bombing the airfield. In Tripoli, part of the F-111 squadron had circled around inland and approached from the south. The city was ablaze with light, and not a single air-raid alarm sounded. "We were able to see the hits," recalled one Navy airman, who had spent many hours studying...
...year was mentioned in a U.S. News & World Report survey of university and college presidents as one of the nation's better schools. Evergreen is one of a set of ambitious schools that in the past half a dozen years have emerged from academe's boondocks or thereabouts to reach for national recognition. All the institutions in the sampler below, along with a growing corps of like-minded schools, have risen under the hands of dynamic presidents. Each offers a special learning opportunity, some at bargain rates, to high school seniors hoping in this climactic month of the admissions season...
...still regarded "as a second-tier institution, with no cohesiveness and notable for its can't-haves. We weren't allowed a law school or a program for doctorates." GM now has both. And Johnson vows there will be more where all this uplift has come from. "We will reach the level of Carnegie-Mellon in eight years," he says. "We will soon be a national university...
...group--which held a planning meeting with members of 10 campus organizations last night--plans to invite controversial speakers to Harvard, print a newsletter and organize a seminar program on social and political issues, HAAP members said. According to the members, HAAP will help controversial campus groups to reach a broader audience by providing them with a "neutral platform...