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...faze Pastora, since he never believed he could hold on to the territory indefinitely. The initial victory made his point. "You don't think I'm so stupid as to stay there and wait for them [the Sandinista attackers], do you?" Pastora said last week after his retreat...
Hart is hardly an old-fashioned isolationist, yearning to retreat into a Fortress America. At the debate he was careful to place himself in the "moderate mainstream" of past U.S. Presidents. He insisted that he would fulfill NATO commitments (although he has urged the European nations to foot more of the bill) and honor existing treaty obligations (although he vaguely added that some "may or may not deserve our continued support"). His plan to restructure the military to make it more "maneuverable" by, for instance, building a larger number of smaller aircraft carriers might increase America's ability...
...official he could find a good piece of his mind. A few days later, the journalists were called back to Havana. This time Cuba's mercurial leader was in a more obliging mood, allowing Adams to photograph him during a duck hunt (he bagged 76) at his country retreat outside Havana. "I heard you had a nasty temper," Castro said to the photographer at dinner later. "Why haven't I seen it?" Replied Adams: "Because now I've got the pictures." -By Guy D. Garcia
...There is a big concern among some colleges to insure that the living facilities are more than dooms--that they are not places for students to retreat from academic life, but that they serve as bridges to the [academic] departments," said Associate Dean of Housing Thomas A. Dingman '67, who recently attended a series of meetings at the University of Pennsylvania and Stanford to discuss aspects of residential life with officials of other colleges...
Explaining the trend to improve residential life. Helm says, "For a while students saw the dorms as a place to retreat from academics at the end of the day. It's the job of a first-rate academic institution to make sure that education doesn't stop in the classrooms...