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...Marshall Plan today is commonly referred to whenever talk surfaces of lending U.S. aid to support a foreign economy. However, most scholars and former statesmen agree with Dillon Professor of the Civilization of France Stanley Hoffmann, who says that while the Plan was "one of the best initiatives of the U.S.," it does not have "a hell of a lot of relevance for today...
Those actions may soon provide some trying moments for two men widely touted as close personal and political friends: Ronald Reagan and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone. The two statesmen are scheduled to meet in Washington on April 29, and the new strain in their relationship comes at a time when both leaders face serious political troubles. At home Nakasone is currently fighting an uphill battle for political survival. The U.S. sanctions were an added burden that could help force him out of office before his term expires in October...
...veteran conciliator he summoned to help salvage his foundering Administration, is whether they can somehow redraw the sorry picture of the lack of presidential leadership that emerges from the report. It is a portrait all the more devastating for having been sketched with tight- lipped reluctance by three elder statesmen struggling to be both objective and polite. Reagan stands exposed as a President willfully ignorant of what his aides were doing, myopically unaware of the glaring contradictions between his public and secret policies, complacently dependent on advisers who never once, from start to finish, presented him with any systematic analysis...
...troupe, but the result confirms Lyubimov's reputation as one of the world's great directors. Crime and Punishment is a startling visual essay, awhirl with energy, ablaze with ideas, at once a devout invocation of Christian hope and a fervid warning against the moral "arithmetic" by which statesmen, as much as felons, balance evil deeds against happy consequences...
...White House confirmed, meanwhile, that Reagan met privately last week with two prominent elder statesmen that former aide Michael K. Deaver is said to have recruited in a campaign for the ouster of White House chief of staff Donald T. Regan...