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...however, he refuses to say whether the election marks "twilight or dawn, an era ending or an era beginning. "He suggests that the ultimate significance of 1980 remains in the hands of Ronald Reagan and his Republican coat tail-riders, who can now either cement their tenuous 1980 coalition or embark on another "wrong turning" that could, as in the 1960s, "bring us to convulsion in the streets. "This is perhaps the one unfortunate thing about America in Search of Itself. More than any of the previous Making of the President installments. White writes here of long-term political trends...
...every P.L.O. supporter wiped out in Lebanon, two are being created in the U.S. Israel has traded its future security for an immediate tenuous security...
...Syrian rebuff effectively ended a tenuous four-day truce between the two armies. Heading north from their fortified positions in Baabda, Israeli armor cut the Beirut-Damascus highway just west of Jamhur, less than a mile from Syrian tank and infantry posts. By seizing Beirut's surrounding hilltops, the Israelis choked off all main supply and exit routes for the Syrian and Palestinian units remaining in the capital...
...gesture that to at least some degree--the University would not confer legitimacy on the apartheid regime. Though the ban fell far short of total divestiture, it did put Harvard the institution on the record as opposing the South African regime. The Corporation, though, showed this winter just how tenuous its commitment to the anti apartheid policy was, temporarily lifting the ban when students appeared too docile to care. Only a strong show of opposition prevented a lasting reversal of the symbolic...
...tenuous situations which Reardon had to consider when dealing with Kleinfelder's future was her success and popularity as coach of Harvard's lacrosse program. He must have found it difficult to take affirmative steps-relating her from her basketball post-when the women's lacrosse team won an Ivy League championship last year. So he let the problem linger until, finally, the basketball program turned critically...