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...good reviews Clark has been getting during his debut period carry some caveats between the lines. Like Reagan, he has never been accused of being an intellectual. His move to the White House improved a messy operation but has done nothing to redress another chronic problem: the Administration's lack of a strategic world view...
...have known what they want out of life, and their desires are connected to the violence around them. The Belfast children long to get away from that violence, even if it means not seeing their country again. The Israelis want peace with victory. The Palestinian children seek redress for wrongs done their people. The Cambodians yearn for tranquillity. Within their various desires, they show great kindliness and generosity and a high sense of fairness. This generally applies to the children of Viet Nam as well. Most of these children seek a little of each of the things sought...
...opression too horrible to bear. Always, the people quickly make the connection between American and their dead brothers and uncles and their empty tables and their dirty clothes. Usually, our government then begins ot request some token reforms from the regime in question; never are they enough to redress the social and economic problems; if they have any effect at all, it is the opposite of their intent, the weakening of the government. Sometimes, as with the Reagan administration, our government opts to back the "friendly" despot to the hilt. No matter; in either case, the people eventually win, though...
Watt, 43, has managed to keep the full backing of the White House on matters of substance, though not of style. In seeking to redress what he calls the "environmental extremist" bias of the past, he has alienated not only liberal environmentalist groups like the Sierra Club but such conservative organizations as the National Wildlife Federation and the National Audubon Society. Even the Los Angeles Times, which endorsed Reagan's candidacy and his pro-development policy, has called for Watt's resignation...
...others), but the slick prosecutor of his earlier outings has here given way to a stammering humanism. The other is by Ken McMillan, the vulgarian of True Confessions and Ragtime, here playing a civilized judge agonizing over the rights and wrongs of Ken's plea for radical redress of a radical grievance. The integrity of their presences compensates for gaffes like a flashback that needlessly proves Ken had an erotic as well as an artistic life...