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...reins of power and take refuge in Europe for a few months. Having spent the last 15 years of his life in Massachusetts Hall, Bok certainly deserves a sabbatical, but the president really started his vacation sometime in September. Since then the administration line has been one of retreat, defense and obfuscation. Despite the impetus one might think a milestone like the 350th celebration would provide, Bok has advanced virtually no new agendas, ignored student and faculty concerns and restricted his availability to the campus press...
...babe. All this domestic flak will die down, the press will retreat when the PR shock troops open fire. But the Freedom Fight is in peril, and every true American must join battle...
...negotiators hammered away at just one subject: SDI. Senior officials on both sides sat down later that evening to try to draft a joint communique. But there was no all-night session this time. Three hours into the staff meeting, it became clear that neither side was going to retreat from its position on SDI, and the session broke...
...something to be desired. Missouri's Richard Gephardt, a self-promoted presidential possibility, when asked about increasing taxes to deal with the huge deficits, avoided an answer. Hopeful Gary Hart, writing in the New York Times, put forth a vague pastiche for "renewal" and "healing" that hinted at a retreat toward trade protectionism and vast new Government spending programs. He offered no clues on where the money might come from in a nation whose wealth is dangerously overspent now. Robert Byrd's genial and rambling pledges for a new beginning did nothing so much as remind people of the Senate...
After making a hasty retreat up a nearby escalator, the two rebels returned and were confronted once more. This time they were ready. "You Russian agents, we'll show you!" vowed one as fists flew. Security guards finally quelled the outbreak...