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...genial host at a White House dinner party, Ronald Reagan could not resist getting off a one-liner. He would have preferred a barbecue in the Rose Garden, he said, but all that smoke from the flaming grills might have violated the Clean Air Act. The gag evoked a chuckle from his guests. But environmentalists around the nation were not amused. They see the wisecrack as just one more sign of the Administration's hostility to maintaining the quality of the nation...
...Republican-controlled Senate, Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia urged Reagan simply to withdraw his proposed budget and submit one less awash in red ink. But Byrd could not resist scoffing at his Republican colleagues for bewailing the huge deficits after they had pushed through Reagan's program of tax cuts last year. "When you buy bologna at the supermarket," said Byrd, "you shouldn't expect to get home and find roast beef...
...August 1980. When the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski crushed that movement last Dec. 13, it died hardest in Gdansk. Three days after martial law was declared, protesters there engaged security forces in pitched battles that, according to the government, left at least nine civilians dead. Gdansk continues to resist. The government announced last week that new street clashes near the Lenin shipyard had ended in 14 injuries and the detention of 205 demonstrators...
That scheme failed, in part because of the collapse of the Nixon presidency over Watergate. Détente became vulnerable to attacks from the American right wing, which a stronger Nixon might have been able to resist. The Soviets, meanwhile, seeing their partner in détente politically incapacitated, no longer felt restrained from taking advantage of the U.S. in Angola, in Southeast Asia and elsewhere...
Hampshire participants resist classification, but the bottom line for many is a feeling of isolation. "A talent for mathematics is somehow the worst thing a young person can have, to his compatriots, you grow up defending it," says Jonathan Siegel '84, a Hampshire alumnus. For most "ordinary" high school students, math is something you have to get over with, but certainly shouldn't enjoy. Many Hampshirites say they spent years hiding their love of math in school, even while pursuing it, so as to be more socially "acceptable." For such students the liberating effect of the program is enhanced...