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Last week's rebuff was merely a "lost battle in a war we're going to win," declared White House Communications Director Patrick Buchanan. "We will never give up," vowed the President as he posed for photographers with three contra leaders who had flown to Washington to plead with legislators on Capitol Hill. He held up a button that read IF YOU LIKE CUBA, YOU'LL LOVE NICARAGUA...
California officials insist that their ukase to publishers is not a rebuff to religion but an endorsement of interesting, up-to-date books. The state is also demanding improved presentation of historical subjects like the Holocaust, which publishers have tiptoed around. "The publishers will publish the books we want if we are clear about what we want," says Honig. As the textbook makers considered ways to meet these sterner standards, there was a growing sense among educators that the demands of the big spenders might start to cure the affliction of simplistic books in U.S. classrooms...
...early favorite. Considered a rival to Bell Laboratories as an electronics developer, Hughes was precisely the type of company that Smith sought. "They are a storehouse of technology," he says. "Hughes' single biggest asset is its brainpower and teamwork." But Hughes coveted its independence and initially spurned GM. The rebuff turned the automaker toward Electronic Data Systems, a Dallas-based computer-services firm that Founder H. Ross Perot had built into the largest company in its field. Smith sees E.D.S. as the key to upgrading GM's worldwide computing operations. Under the Texas firm's guidance, GM machines performing tasks...
...delivered an equally big and incendiary no a few years back was also right. Jerry Ford in 1975 refused to use federal credit to help lift New York out of its fiscal mess until the city took its own action. The New York Daily News headline for that rebuff is famous: FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD. New York did not drop dead. Instead it got mad, went to work and devised its own rescue, which a few weeks ago prompted Mayor Ed Koch to crow about New York's financial condition: "We are healthier than any other city...
...that students have not been invited to joint the CRR since 1980, as The Crimson reported on May 10. Under its ordinary procedure, the administration would have asked the House committees to send delegates in the fall. By suspending the invitation, presumably to spare itself the embarrassment of continued rebuff, the administration has de facto imposed the boycott on itself. As a result, the issues surrounding the CRR are new even to seniors...