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Perhaps Kirkpatrick is so appealing to Reagan because she offers him what he promised the people--a consistent foreign policy. But to persevere in the errors of the past for the sake of consistency alone is wrongheaded and ineffective policy; and a more enlightened approach does not have to be inconsistent, even if Carter's faltering efforts towards one seemed...
...government officials. He eventually interviewed ten of the 18 members on Solidarity's presidium. "I have become quite fond of the Polish people over the course of this assignment, and have made a number of friends -among them, members of the party," says Kalb. "For everyone's sake, I hope their experiment with a more humane and democratic form of Communism is allowed to succeed...
Similar calls for restraint were heard at commemorative ceremonies last week in Gdynia and Szczecin, the other flash points of the 1970 revolts. The observances themselves could have been construed as a challenge to Moscow, but the Kremlin was apparently prepared to swallow them, for the sake of helping the Polish Communist Party reassert its authority. After weeks of roller-coaster crisis, leaders of the party and Solidarity, the foundation of Poland's independent unions, appear to have reached at least a temporary meeting of minds. One White House aide, delighted that the threat of an immediate Soviet invasion...
...second-guessing, no numbing prattle." Just one announcer will be on hand, says NBC, to offer only the sort of essential information (injuries, rulings) that a stadium announcer traditionally provides. The prospect is engaging, even if it may be shocking to see a game presented merely for the sake of the drama on the field...
...hardly worth wishing that he recognize the advances of the last two decades by appointing women and minorities to the posts since they would be obvious and insincere tokens, and since they would be just as willing as the rest to march us towards armageddon for the sake of supply-side economics and military superiority. And it hardly seems worth the trouble for the last remaining liberals to mount challenges to these gray corporate faces--their ammunition, whatever of it survives, should be saved for the day when these men start to implement policy...