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Critics charge that Arroyo has been too protective of the President, blocking access to her, suppressing documents he does not want her to see, and generally insulating her from political and economic realities. His public criticism of the military has alienated the country's top officers, among them such staunch Aquino loyalists as Armed Forces Chief Fidel Ramos. Almost every attempted coup in the past 18 months, including the most recent one, has demanded the ouster of Arroyo as well as that of another outspoken Aquino adviser, Speechwriter Teodoro Locsin. Many military men allege that Arroyo is a Communist...
...certainly not the first time Reagan had disappointed his bedrock constituency. Throughout his presidency, staunch conservatives have sporadically complained that Reagan in action has never matched the ideological oratory that so thrills them on the stump. But as the silent tableau in the Roosevelt Room indicated, their dissatisfaction is plumbing new depths, which could make trouble not only for Reagan but also for the Republican aspirants to succeed...
Honasan evidently did not share that view: he escaped from the sprawling campgrounds by helicopter. He is believed to be hiding in Manila with twelve staunch RAM members, and may take to urban terrorism. Honasan, said Robles last week, "would rather reduce the country to rubble now and see it rise again than watch its current slow death...
While praise in academe has hardly been unanimous for Bloom and Hirsch, the two have got raves from some powerful and diverse educators. Secretary of Education William Bennett, a staunch conservative who has beaten the Western drum while beating up on the colleges for the same perceived derelictions as Bloom denounced, calls the Chicago philosopher's work a "brilliant book, a phenomenon" that "points out where higher education has gone wrong and what we need to fix it." Bennett says, "Too many schools ignore the great minds and instead try to teach kids how to make a living...
While the doctrine may be laudable, to be successful it requires complete cooperation from Congress, the Government bureaucracy and the public in committing the U.S. to a series of long-term, shadowy struggles whose outcome is in serious doubt. As Kirkpatrick, a staunch promoter of the Reagan Doctrine, noted in a monograph written for the Heritage Foundation, "Even people who share the President's basic political and moral orientation have questions about whether support for resistance movements is practical, whether it risks war, whether it makes sense to support small groups of people...