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...Carnegie Foundation also calls for federal funds and participation in setting up a network of residential math and science academies for gifted students and establishing a National Teacher Service that would provide scholarships for top students who want to become teachers themselves. Although President Reagan remains steadfast in his argument that schooling is a local responsibility, Secretary of Education Terrel Bell has already praised the Carnegie report for its "breadth and creativity...
...wants the anti-Libyan push to be Franco-American-a multilateral enterprise not unlike the four-nation Western peace-keeping force in Beirut, to which Reagan has contributed 1,800 Marines. The high-stakes Beirut experience has, in fact, reinforced White House faith in the pacifying value of a steadfast military presence: the encamped U.S. troops may not have moved Lebanon any closer to peace, but the Administration remembers vividly that a year ago, barely a week after the first Marine contingent in Beirut was pulled out, between 700 and 800 Arabs in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra...
Clark's loyalties are steadfast only to Reagan. They seem to shift according to circumstance when other Administration officials are involved. For instance, after he moved to the NSC, Clark helped engineer the ouster of his former boss, Haig. In encouraging the President to vent his anger about the nuclear freeze movement and El Salvador, Clark prevailed over James Baker and his aides, whom Clark dismisses privately as "political types" and "civilians." In January, Clark interceded against a White House reorganization that would have diminished Meese's role. That intervention strained his relations with his old friend Deaver...
Under the terms of the constitution, Hirohito's successor will have little opportunity to extend imperial power. Meanwhile, though most of Hirohito's subjects regard him with fond bemusement, some are beginning to suggest privately that he should abdicate. But the Emperor remains steadfast. When questioned once about his long reign, His Imperial Majesty simply recited a proverb: "Not even under the heaviest snowfall will willow trees snap." -By Pico Iyer...
...almost a year since we left Beirut, and the Palestinian revolution has not been liquidated. We lost a lot in that war, but we made a good stand. The Israelis thought they could finish us off in three to five days with all their American weapons, but we were steadfast, gloriously steadfast. And here...