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...policy. The Administration still opposes a negotiated settlement in El Salvador that would lead to the guerrillas' sharing political power that they had not won in free elections. Indeed, the word negotiations has become a rallying point for critics who think that the guerrillas would end their rebellion if given a share of government power at the bargaining table. But the tone of Reagan's speech was notably positive about pursuing diplomatic solutions. Only two weeks before, the Administration had been somewhat cool to the work of the Contadora group of Latin American nations, led by Mexico and Venezuela, which...
...draw the line" against Soviet expansionism at El Salvador. Since then, Administration officials have periodically flogged the Red Menace, sometimes with unhappy results. The most notable diplomatic debacle occurred when the Administration promised to produce a Nicaraguan defector who would reveal evidence of outside control of the Salvadoran rebellion; the young soldier dutifully appeared before a group of American reporters and then denied the entire scenario...
...look back it seems clear to men that this event was a part of--and perhaps even a moving force in--the intense search for self-fulfillment that gathered momentum throughout the siestas, produced major changes in values and culminated in student riots and rebellion all over the country Daniel Yankelovich using survey data has make the most sense of these changes for me in his book, New Rules Searching for Self-fulfillment in a World Turned Upside Down. He points out that many psychologists like Carl Rogers had been arguing for a long time that people were bundles...
...career and plenty of white wine, not living as they chose without taking any responsibility for running the show. Above all, according to Yankelovich's survey results, they tried of pursuing selfish goals, felt increasingly lonely and began to seek community and commitment. Has the stage three "ethic of rebellion and self-fulfillment" given way to the stage four "ethic of commitment"? I hope so, because it certainly represents greater maturity to be committed to something beyond the self, to some reality that transcends the self and tests one's freely given loyalty and commitment. Such a perspective also gives...
Donaldson's demeanor of adolescent rebellion-as the kind of kid who got A's on tests and F's in behavior and took equal pride in both-can make him appear undisciplined. In reality, he brings to his work the same dogged determination that carried him from a "sad rat" freshman to a "sharp sergeant" at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Raised by a strict Baptist mother in El Paso, Donaldson returned to attend Western Texas College. After graduate school at the University of Southern California and a stint in the Army, he came back...