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...socially disadvantaged." Yet in 1976, when fellow graduate students were scrounging for teaching jobs, Rodriguez found himself overwhelmed with offers from top universities, not because he was a skillful scholar-teacher-which he was-but simply because he was a member of a racial minority. Disillusioned by what he regarded as the unfairness of academic affirmative-action policies based solely on race, he turned down all the professorships offered and became a writer. Rodriguez realized that "the policy of affirmative action was never able to distinguish someone like me from a slightly educated Mexican American who lived in a barrio...
...this regard, the U.S. proposal as indicated to the press is poorly worded and may thus prove to be ineffective. According to a State Department official. Washington has asked for "an end to Nicaraguan support for insurgencies in neighboring countries." The problem lies with the ambiguity of the word "support." Clearly the Sandinistas will not agree to curtailing their moral support for any leftist group in Central America. And it hardly seems likely that the leaders in Managua will publicly disavow material support for insurgencies--support they have consistently claimed does not exist. In the world of international relations, where...
Washington's reversal, even if it does not lead to immediate detente with the Sandinistas, at least opens the doors for continued negotiations. Maybe the Administration has come to realize that a policy of talk and compromise beats one of threats and rhetoric, at least with regard to Nicaragua. One can be skeptical of the Administration's good intentions toward the Sandinistas but the very existence of the new plan demonstrates that moderates carry some weight within Reagan's foreign policy team. And that is cause enough to celebrate...
...states; so far, 31 of the necessary 34 states have done so. Never before in U.S. history has there been such a convention, and there would be no legal way to prevent it from reconsidering any part of the Constitution. Even staunch opponents of the Hatch amendment regard his proposal as by far the lesser of two evils...
Israelis feel so strongly about the West Bank in part because of what is happening in the northern Sinai, which Israel has agreed to give back to Egypt by April 25. Although most Israelis regard the Sinai withdrawal as a suitable price to pay for peace with Egypt, the evacuation is nonetheless a difficult step, which will leave them feeling more cramped and less secure than they were before. But the real victims of the Sinai withdrawal are the 5,000 Israelis who lived there; to them, the experience of leaving has been both sorrowful and infuriating...