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Secretary of State Alexander Haig said last week that the renewed attention the Reagan Administration is placing on its Central American policy is designed to "put the current state of play into sharper focus." Yet the play at his State Department seemed, as Alice said of her own Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser. Does Washington sincerely want to pursue negotiations to reduce tensions between the U.S. and Nicaragua? Is Central America a "global" problem that requires the participation of the Soviet Union and Cuba? Should the U.S. keep trying to prove outside involvement in El Salvador? Another week of mixed signals...
...nation keeps a sharper eye on foreign press coverage of its flammable affairs than Israel. When it does not like what it sees, the Israeli government is quick to express its displeasure to newsmen. But rarely is the criticism as pointed, as personal or as outrageous as it was last week. Angered by a report on ABC'S 20/20 describing Israeli treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, Ze'ev Chafets, director of the government press office, charged that certain U.S. and European news organizations suppress negative stories on Syria and the Palestine Liberation Organization because they fear...
Charlie Duffy returned from the disabled list showing few effects from a sprained right ankle. The senior topped Dartmouth sophomore Sam Stevens by a square 15-7, 15-7, 15-7, Mitch Reese, sharper than he's looked for a couple of weeks, took care of his one ninth, 15-12, 15-13, 15-10, while Peter Dinneen, playing in his third consecutive, though not necessarily best, varsity match, gutted out a 17-15, 15-11, 17-16 squeaker...
...Lemonde grew sharper in the Colgate net, the Red Raider defense foiled repeated scoring chances for the Crimson's first line of Greg Olson, team captain Michael Watson and Greg Britz...
...having to retreat from his promise of a balanced budget by 1984, finding the recession worse than his economists had anticipated, and being unable to silence his quarreling foreign policy makers, offhandedness was not enough. Among columnists, critics were getting sharper and sympathizers uneasy, often a portent of troubles to come. Anthony Lewis called the conduct of foreign policy "a national joke"; William Safire regretfully accused Reagan of losing touch with reality. Like many survivors of Nixon's Washington, Safire was concerned about a tendency, new to Reagan but not to Presidents in general, to blame the press when...