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That is how Hendrick Hertzberg '65, former editor and now contributing editor to the New Republic, describes the Institute of Politics (IOP). Hertzberg should know; he is spending his second term as a recuperating IOP fellow...
...soon --for the Pacific coastal areas of Mexico and neighboring Guatemala. McNally believes the region could be hit by as many as five earthquakes in the 8.0 Richter range during the next five years. Precisely when the temblors will occur is another matter. Geologists are still restricted to long-term predictions, parceled out by the year or decade rather than the month or day. But by closely monitoring quake zones, they hope to find subtle clues that will lead to more precise and reliable forecasts. Keiiti Aki, a geophysicist at the University of Southern California, has designed a detailed computer...
None of Reagan's advisers appear willing to try to persuade him to put SDI on the bargaining table. In his first term, the U.S. arms-control apparatus was nearly paralyzed by an intramural struggle between advocates of a negotiated agreement, led by former Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt, and opponents of arms control, led by Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle. Burt has since departed to become Ambassador to West Germany, leaving no one to push hard for arms control. The Pentagon under Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger is unalterably opposed to abandoning SDI (see box). Publicly, Shultz always...
Given the festival's loose, long-term political aspirations, some Americans have questioned whether the money might be better spent on charitable causes in the subcontinent. In India too, concedes Festival Director General S.K. Misra, "there was a campaign to oppose it." A further cause for discontent, according to Desai: "From U.S. companies that do business in India, the response in terms of donations has not been as good as we would have anticipated...
...Swedish model has survived. We have won a battle for the society of well-being against the neoliberal right!" So said a relieved Olof Palme, 58, after winning a fourth term last week as Sweden's Prime Minister. But the veteran Social Democratic Party leader could hardly boast of a triumph at the polls. His center-left party, which stands squarely for the welfare state, actually lost seven of its 166 seats in the 349-member Riksdag (parliament), as its share of the popular vote fell from 45.6% in 1982 to 44.9%. Thus Palme will have to rely increasingly...