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...memo released last August in court proceedings against Weinberger contradicts Bush's statements. The memo, dictated by Shultz to his assistant after a conversation with Weinberger, indicated clearly that Bush had discussed Weinberger's and Shultz's feelings on the matter. "It's on the Record [sic]," the memo said...
...LATE 1930S A HARVARD STUDENT TRAVELED TO Europe to see its brutal dictatorships firsthand. He visited Mussolini's Italy, Stalin's Soviet Union and Hitler's Germany. Writing in his diary, the young man confided that he had come "to the decision that Facism ((sic)) is the thing for Germany and Italy, Communism for Russia and Democracy for America and England." But when he ran for President in 1960, John F. Kennedy never had to explain that isolationist view. Nor would raising the issue have made much sense, because the mature Kennedy had long since outgrown the jottings...
Characterizations such as "Haya de la Torre, your standard Latin American charismatic type," "Belaunde, the Herbert Hoover of Peruvian politics: and "Furjimoro [sic] known as the karate kid" (Fujimori, the last name of the current Peruvian President was misspelled throughout the entire editorial as Fukimoro) only serve to create a stereotype which depicts Peruvian leaders as being cartoon characters. I hardly believe that Javier Perez de Cuellar (former Secretary General of teh United Nations) and writer Mario Vargas Llosa (who will shortly be a visiting professor at Harvard), both current leaders in Peruvian society, fit stereotypes that the author...
TRADITIONALLY, THE MAY DAY PORTRAITS STARING blankly across Moscow's Red Square were those of the founders of communism -- Marx, Engels and Lenin--and * the current crop of Politburo heavies. Banners bore slogans like GLORY TO THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF THE SOVIET UNION and GLORY TO LABOR. Sic transit glory. This year Moscow has not only dumped the trappings of socialism but hopes to replace them with outright commercialism...
...piece, which refers to its author as"Rigor-Mortis Professor of Law," describespostmodern feminists as women who "don't wearmakeup,...wear all Black, because wHITE [sic] isthe color of mirth,...[and] wear good, comfortablewalking shoes...