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...Southern California, a non-profit aviation group. Early next year it is scheduled for exhibition by the Wrather Corp., which also owns the Queen Mary, in a huge geodesic dome at Long Beach. That sounds fine, a dignified last berth for a plane too noble to break up for scrap. But here is what tickles the short hairs on the back of the neck: some time this summer, Wrather executives plan to taxi the Goose, under its own mighty power, to the dome site. The pilot in charge will have strict instructions, of course; threats and thunderations even...
...Reagan Administration immediately decided to scrap the Carter policy of linking aid to El Salvador to the elimination of human rights abuses and to progress on land reforms promised by the junta. Instead, another form of linkage was instituted: Reagan and Haig publicly emphasized that since Cuba and other Soviet clients were supporting the rebels, the guerrilla war in El Salvador was not a local affair but part of a larger East-West struggle...
Cohen, age 57, lives in Manhattan, where he is on the faculties of the Manhattan School of Music and SUNY at Stony Brook. During the summer, he performs and teaches at the Marlboro Festival. The son of a scrap-metal dealer from Brooklyn, Cohen studied under Ivan Galamian at Julliard. Before joining the Beaux Arts Trio in 1968, Cohen spent more than ten years with the Julliard String Quartet. He has also appeared as a guest artist with the distinguished Budapest Quartet. In some ways, Cohen is the most jocular of the Beaux Arts, often relieving the tension of rehearsals...
...demand of our people is not for bigger government, or smaller government, but for better government. We cannot solve our problems by throwing money at them, but we also dare not throw our national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference...
...Review was wise to scrap the plan it originally adopted three weeks ago and replace it with an affirmative action policy that avoids rigid quotas or targets but still aims to increase minority and women representation. The original mechanical procedure would have been an ineffective means to achieve more diversity. Underlying any affirmative action policy is a belief that a person who has been underprivileged--economically, socially or educationally--in the past will achieve a level of academic performance beneath his or her potential. But if past deprivation is the explanation for the fact that over the past two years...