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...most dazzling success enjoyed to date by Schwab, Cahill and their colleagues is the resolution of a controversy involving the first book printed with movable metallic type. Most experts have awarded that honor to Gutenberg's two-volume, 1,282-page Bible, printed some-time between 1450 and 1455 with 42 lines of type a page. But doubts remained because of two cruder works of the mid-1400s: a rare 36-line Bible and a scrap of paper known as the Sibyllenbuch fragment, also printed in 36-line type. The question that has nagged scholars for years is whether these...
...where people are struggling to "secure rights which have been ours from birth," but where the tyranny is not of Soviet issue? To be consistent and credible, the Reagan Doctrine needs a companion, an idea of how the U.S. intends to advance democracy in a non-Communist setting. The success of U.S. policy in helping the transition to democracy in the Philippines suggests an answer: a doctrine of the third force...
...Aquino will have to neutralize remaining Marcos loyalists in the K.B.L., particularly the party bosses in rural areas, who rule their fiefs like medieval warlords. One group she probably will not have to worry about, for the moment at least, is the left, which seemed genuinely stunned by her success. Bayan, a federation of 1,000 "cause-oriented" groups, joined the outlawed National Democratic Front, the Communist Party's political arm, in boycotting the election. Last week the N.D.F. criticized Aquino's Cabinet choices but admitted in a press statement that the ouster of Marcos was a "significant victory...
...Washington, some Philippine experts dismissed such talk as naive. "Their plan seems unrealistic," said Larry Niksch, director of Asian affairs at the Congressional Research Service. "It will take the government a long, determined and very sophisticated effort to deal with the insurgency." Added one Western diplomat: "Aquino's success undoubtedly weakens the Communists' appeal to the so-called mass base. But one swallow does not a summer make." Unquestionably, Aquino's policy is a gamble. If she fails to make visible progress against economic problems, it is possible, even likely, that the insurgency will grow...
...impaneled to study the Pentagon. "Few of these countless proposals and recommendations have been taken seriously, and an even smaller number have actually been adopted," noted a Senate Armed Services Committee study on defense organization last fall. Needless to say, merely rearranging boxes on an organization chart hardly guarantees success. Still, even among the Pentagon's staunchest allies, a search for meaningful reform is under way. Increasingly, the question is becoming not just whether to spend more on defense, but how to spend the money more wisely...