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...last all we harborers of the insidious polyp can come out of the closet. We no longer live with the stigma of having experienced what was once one of the most dehumanizing treatments yet devised by the medical profession. President Reagan has freed us and given us undreamed of social status. Robert H. Shaver Bloomington, Ind. Mission to Mars...
...likes to be misquoted, as I believe I was in your story on David Stockman's resignation [NATION, July 22]. As a person who served under President Reagan, I especially object to TIME's misquote that has me denigrating the President as a "simpleminded conservative." TIME's quote is a composite, pieced together from answers to different questions. I never said anything like the quote attributed to me. Neither was I "fuming" when I explained to your reporter that I thought Budget Director Stockman undercut his own budgets by taking extreme positions that lacked credibility in the Congress...
...might, the Reagan Administration cannot seem to avoid controversy in its espousal of the Nicaraguan rebels who are seeking to overthrow their country's Sandinista government. Last week the White House was stuck with two new varieties of contra fuss. In the first case, a group of American citizens was kidnaped by the rebels. In the second, the White House had to come to grips with revelations that it has sailed close to the edges of a congressional ban on direct military aid to the insurgents. The Administration's controversial move was assigning a member of the National Security Council...
...Witness affair allowed the Managua regime to hammer away at a standard theme: the Reagan Administration's alleged hypocrisy in denouncing state-sponsored terrorism. As Interior Minister Tomás Borge Martínez, one of Nicaragua's nine ruling comandantes, put it last week, "The U.S. condemns terrorism when a plane is hijacked. This is terrorism, and these acts should also be condemned...
Some Americans, recalling the nearly 300,000 American casualties in the Pacific fighting that began with Japan's surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, felt the domestic memorials were misplaced. Others, including President Reagan, emphasized that peace and the elimination of weapons were not necessarily synonymous. "We must never forget what nuclear weapons brought upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki," said Reagan, "yet we must remain mindful that our maintenance of a strong nuclear deterrent has for four decades ensured the security of the U.S. and the freedom of our allies in Asia and Europe." For most, however, it was simply a time...