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...nomination are former State Legislator Anthony Earl and James Wood, director of the Center for Public Policy in Madison. More significant: so far, no Republicans have stepped forward for the job. That single fact seems to sum up the sense of dismay being felt among Midwestern Republicans, caught between stubborn economic problems and growing worries about Democratic victories at the polls come November. Jimmy Carter's pollster, Pat Caddell, is not exactly a disinterested observer. But privately, many Republican politicians agree with Caddell's tough assessment that the G.O.P. could get slaughtered politically: "Their strongest candidates simply...
...refreshing to read about things like sentiment, affection and even loyalty. Like a stubborn aunt and a boisterous nephew, our two countries have differences at every turn, but it remains the same family...
Some Administration officials believe that China has as much interest as the U.S. in maintaining close ties. The stubborn Chinese position, they argue, only reflects internal struggles as Deng tries to accommodate hard-liners in his party. But that view may underestimate the depth of Chinese feeling about Taiwan. "It's a matter of national pride, of sovereignty," says a Peking intellectual. "If we compromise on this score, future generations will curse us for having sold...
Israel's stubborn Defense Minister, Ariel Sharon, issued that pledge last week as he spoke at the opening of a new Israeli military outpost in the West Bank Valley of Elah where, according to biblical tradition, Goliath was slain by David. Having returned the final third of the Sinai Peninsula to Egyptian control, the government of Prime Minister Menachem Begin was showing that it had no intention of ever agreeing to a similar withdrawal from the other Arab territories occupied since 1967. "Israel has now reached the red line of its concessions," declared Sharon. Begin, whose government announced last...
Then, too, both peoples are grossly sentimental, deeply unsophisticated and dangerously stubborn-the English pride being narrow-nosed, the American blustery; but the effect is equally irritating to anyone who deals with them. The English are famous for not adjusting to foreign places, but Americans don't do this either. Both countries are inventive. The English like to demean American know-how, but they are just as dazzled by ingenuity. They simply have an older world to cherish along with the new; thus they make an elaborate point of doing so. Both countries are class-ridden, though...