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...Socialists, reducing military spending represents a sharp turnabout. When Mitterrand was swept into power last year, he delighted France's NATO allies, and mollified suspicious right-wing opponents at home, by making it clear that he would strengthen the nation's defense effort. At a time when most of the allies were cutting back, Mitterrand proposed a hefty 17.6% increase in defense spending for 1982, or nearly 4% after inflation. Since then, the gray realities of recession have taken their toll. Defense Minister Charles Hernu, relying on a government decree, hacked a total of $2.5 billion from...
...dominate the organization. Assad's great fear is that the Palestinians will reach an agreement with Israel over the West Bank and Gaza, leaving the Golan Heights, which Israel seized from Syria in the 1967 war and has since annexed, in Israeli hands. In an effort to strengthen the P.L.O.'s hard-line factions, Assad has encouraged criticism of Arafat's diplomatic maneuvers and placed frustrating restrictions on P.L.O. fighters within Syria...
...highly publicized campaign to strengthen Islamic values in Pakistani society has proved deeply divisive. He sees it as the only means of unifying the country's disparate ethnic groups, but the drive has alienated the intelligentsia and students, who deplore strictures on female behavior and on the use of alcohol. Zia's detractors go so far as to link the Increased number of youthful drug addicts in Pakistan, estimated to be as high as 50,000, to the rigidity of the Islamic code. They also note that although classical Arabic has been introduced to school curriculums, Pakistan...
...Mount Holyoke President Elizabeth Kennan, a medievalist, believes that the "genuine integration" of humanities and sciences will strengthen the liberal arts. Says she: "The heart of a liberal arts education is concern with the world we find ourselves in, our ability to comprehend it and make moral judgments about our action...
English Professor Robert I. Brustein swears by tennis. "Certainly I play to keep in shape, but tennis doesn't really strengthen that many muscles--just some muscles in the legs. I play more for rhythm, and for timing, and simply for the choreography of the game, which I find enchanting. It keeps you under the illusion that you're still young...