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Should Hart's aggressive new drive fail to pay off, some of his aides say, he will reassess his strategy; particularly if Mondale wins in Texas and Ohio, it will be almost impossible to deny him the nomination, and Hart may decide for the sake of party unity to aim his sharpest fire from that point on at Reagan. But Hart is bitter about what he sees as Mondale's hypocrisy. That resentment seethed to the surface last week when he noted, more than once, that he now doubts there is any way, even in the name...
Ever since the days of Theodore Roosevelt our response to any unrest in Central America and the Caribbean has been to "send in the marines". Isn't about time to reassess this policy? There is only one true democracy in Central America--Costa Rica. Costa Rica is also the only nation in the region without a standing army. There is a lesson to be learned here. The way to achieve democracy is not through military might, but by improving economic conditions to create a climate for peaceful political reform. Andrew L. Strom...
...Dean Gerald M. McCue said the current discussions have their roots in that loss but that the school has moved slowly to reassess its objectives. "I think the time has come for a logical policy for the growth of the school," he said...
Pressure to do just that is growing. House Speaker Tip O'Neill announced that he will meet with 14 Democratic Congressmen this week to reassess the House majority's attitude toward Rea gan's Lebanon policy. In September, the Democrats gave Reagan enough votes to extend the Marines' stay in Lebanon until April 1985. An aide to Republican Sena tor Howard Baker said that the Majority Leader also expects a bipartisan push for an early Marine pullout when the Congress reconvenes on Jan. 23. While Rea gan's own rhetoric about not yielding to terrorism...
...urge to reassess the Kennedy myth is understandable. But for those of us whose spirits were lifted by the New Frontier and who grew up "in the huts and villages of half the globe," often with a picture of J.F.K. on the mud wall, the legend is stirring and meaningful. Kennedy cannot be measured by his national accomplishments alone. He belongs to a larger world...