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Following the discovery of a plan by counterrevolutionary groups in Honduras to increase their attacks upon Miskito Indian villages in the border region, the inhabitants of the area were relocated to communities in the interior. Schools, health clinics, potable water have all been provided. Reagan Administration spokesmen, however, continue to call this repression so as to discredit Nicaragua and further justify U.S. support to the tottering government of El Salvador...
...again President Ronald Reagan was under pressure to convince skeptics that his Administration has only one, consistent foreign policy. And the reason he needed to dispel doubts was a disturbingly familiar one: seemingly contradictory statements put forward by Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and their spokesmen. First, the President last week dashed off a "Dear Menachem" letter to Prime Minister Begin, reassuring Israel's leader that there had been no cooling of U.S. friendship toward his country, no matter what impression Begin might have got from Weinberger's trip to Arab countries the week...
...spokesmen also said the average age of the city's firemen is increasing, which they said will reduce the departments effectiveness...
...acrimonious session did, however, have a bright side. It inspired spokesmen for the Western allies to join a forceful show of unity at a time when many European government leaders are at odds with U.S. policy on a number of fronts. They angrily blame their economic problems on what they see as the Reagan Administration's failure to bring down world interest rates and on a stubborn protectionist streak in U.S. trade policy. In addition, the Europeans object to seeming inconsistencies in American policy-like refusing to impose a grain embargo on the Soviets while simultaneously demanding sacrifices from...
...extent that policymakers and spokesmen for both left and right can avoid historymongering, so much the better. There is a converse to Philosopher George Santayana's famous warning, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." It is equally true that those who dwell obsessively on the past are prone to poor analysis, divisive debate, unconstructive criticism and bad decisions as they face the future. In short, they are doomed to ask the wrong questions, which can only yield the wrong answers. -By Strobe Talbott