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...partial pullback as the first step in a complete Israeli withdrawal, it may be able to prevail upon Syria to remove some of its soldiers as well. As Reagan explained at his White House press conference last week, "It certainly will give us a better case for breaking the roadblock that has been established by Syria and persuading them to keep their original promise that when others withdrew, they would withdraw." That is the essence of the message U.S. Special Envoy Robert McFarlane is expected to carry to Syria on his first swing through the region this week, meeting with...
After a briefing in Jalapa, our seven-car caravan, carrying 40 people, was headed for an airstrip outside of town, where a Soviet-built, single-engine biplane was to fly us back to Managua. We were warned of trouble ahead as we passed a roadblock, but our hosts decided to proceed. It was a mistake. Barely four miles out of town, the air was suddenly filled with the sound of machine gunfire. The convoy had come under ambush from a force of 80 to 100 contras hidden between trees on one side of the road and in back of barns...
...Rosovsky has made his share of mistakes, and it will be his successor's responsibility to pick up the pieces. The Core Curriculum remains a flawed innovation, one that often seems a roadblock to the intellectual broadening and deepening that it professes to achieve. The Faculty Council, the closed executive committee of the Faculty which Rosovsky chairs, has often seemed grossly insensitive to the legitimate concerns of racial minorities, women, and gay students--its rejection of a policy of nondiscrimination for gays being an obvious example. Rosovsky has also done much to perpetuate the flaws in Harvard's tenure process...
...Northern California earlier this month, a mud slide in the Sierras buried a 1,000-ft. stretch of Highway 50 between Sacramento and South Lake Tahoe under 60,000 cu. yds. of mud, rocks and debris. Highway crews, unable to remove the rubble, are now paving over the roadblock, which runs 30 to 40 ft. high in some spots. Mail in the area is temporarily being delivered by the 450-member National Pony Express Association, a private society that operates California's original pony express station, seven miles from the mud slide. Pony postmen include local ranchers, a highway...
...Anne Burford was surrounded. White House aides were a solid Greek chorus subtly pressuring a recalcitrant President Reagan to let go his besieged Environmental Protection Agency chief. They convinced him that she was a roadblock to settling the dispute with Congress and restoring credibility and employee morale at the battered EPA. Burford's mentor in the Administration, Interior Secretary James Watt, advised her that her support was eroding and that she should consider quitting. Finally, shortly after 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, she received a call from Reagan Friend Joseph Coors, a Colorado brewery mogul, who had been...