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...meeting with Reagan, and in a later private talk with Haig, Begin likewise would not budge on anything. At one point, the White House put out word that the Prime Minister had pledged to refrain from a final assault on Beirut. Haig was furious because he regarded the threat of an Israeli attack as essential to induce the remnants of the P.L.O. holed up in Beirut to negotiate with Israel. The Israeli leader had, in fact, made no pledge. As the fighting continued, Clark, Weinberger and others were arguing with Reagan that Haig's soft-on-Israel approach increasingly...
...damage to U.S. policy in the region can be made until the war is over. Much will depend on the conflict's length and severity, as well as the degree of military aid the U.S. provides Britain. Diego Uribe Vargas, former Colombian Foreign Minister, echoes a common refrain when he observes that such institutions as the O.A.S. and the Treaty of Rio have not proved to be effective instruments in the current crisis. "They are like those medicines you keep in a bottle on a shelf for a long time," he says. "When you take them, you find...
...society respects the autonomy of academic institutions because it assumes that they will devote themselves to the academic tasks that they were established to pursue. This does not mean that universities should refrain from trying to influence the outside world. It does mean that they should exert an influence by fostering the reasoned expression of ideas and arguments put forward by their individual members and not by taking institutional steps to inflict sanctions on others. Universities that violate this social compact do so at their peril. They cannot expect to remain free from interference if they insist on using their...
...perfectly good funds for, say, schools instead of roads. One song celebrates the good wives left behind when a blizzard must be cleared away, and another the sad fact that stoicism is necessary in a poor state like Vermont: "You gotta drive that hunk of junk, son," goes the refrain. "You gotta drive it by yourself...
...focal points for this strange succession of happenings, lending the voyage from scene to scene more excitement, more obvious purpose, than the scenes themselves. The latter do seem in fact to concern a a man named Woyzeck (the name rings repetitively through the various modes of address, a ghostly refrain), a soldier, who has been forced to eat nothing but peas for months in the interests of science. Who shaves his Captain's beard daily in return for disjointed grilling on philosophy and morals. Who kills a woman and may, or may not, get caught. Sentences, conversations repeat constantly, occasionally...