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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...
Among the areas of the law where his replacement by a staunch conservative might make the greatest difference...
While by no means indicative of the activities of the Board today, the Galbraith incident provides a useful milestone in the history of government at Harvard. A Board comprised of staunch clergymen when it was created in 1642 has over the intervening three and a half centuries acquired a much more diverse complexion--now sporting a wide membership that includes Blacks, women, businessmen, and academics...