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...commentary accusing the U.S. and ''Zionists'' of using a ''hostile campaign'' to discredit Waldheim. The article, however, seemed directed more at smearing the U.S. and Israel than at lending support to Waldheim. The dispatch was not picked up by Moscow newspapers. Meanwhile, the President-elect set about the difficult task of trying to heal campaign wounds before his inauguration on July 8. In his first postelection press conference, Waldheim, 67, declared, ''The horror of the Holocaust must not be forgotten,'' and pledged to fight anti-Semitism. That same day, his wife Elisabeth confirmed that she had once been a Nazi...
...more cajoling and stroking. But Regan appears on his way to becoming another of those people in this Administration whose political obituaries were premature. Regan, perhaps the second most powerful man in the Government, will probably go the distance with the President. But it will be an increasingly difficult task, as power inevitably wanes and every issue becomes tainted with politics in the struggle to choose a Reagan successor. ''It is absolutely uncanny,'' muses Regan. ''Something small that you think is just a nit and a gnat, and all of a sudden, if not handled correctly or somebody gets offended...
...scapegoat and prosecuting would serve the national interest.'' At his press conference last week, the President agreed with Rogers. ''I don't believe that there was any deliberate or criminal intent in any way,'' said Reagan. Instead of searching for blame, the Administration and Congress face a greater task in answering the financial and policy questions posed by the commission's recommendations. The report urges that the shuttle's booster joints be entirely redesigned rather than just modified and that the rockets $ be test-fired vertically instead of horizontally. It proposes that long-known weaknesses in the tires, brakes...
Transforming a nation of 32 million people is a task not for the West but for Afghans. Creating a narrative of national identity is not a technical engineering problem but more a question of mythmaking. Afghanistan's future must combine elders like Nabi with the aspirations of 5 million refugees, recently returned from Pakistan and Iran. And it will be influenced by even larger forces: the eddies of local ideologies, charisma, the fundamentals of population growth and natural resources, global commodity prices and the nation's relations with its neighbors, from Iran and Pakistan to China. It will draw...
...pilgrims who've flocked to Sydney to celebrate World Youth Day are, well... young. But the 2,000-year-old Church that still prints official documents in Latin and the 20-year-olds snapping photos of the Pope on disposable cameras seem to be having a blast together. "The task of young people is to bring fire into the Church," Pell said on Wednesday, after joining 4,400 priests and 145,000 exuberant worshipers for Mass beside Sydney Harbour...