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Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's three-day tour of inspection to Panama, El Salvador and Honduras last week was intended to make the Defense Secretary a "better advocate," as he put it, for Reagan Administration policy in troubled Central America. It was no accident that the area circumscribed by Weinberger's journey was the scene of the most important new buildup of American military force in the Western Hemisphere...
...Giscard d'Estaing, 57, President of France from 1974 to 1981; James Callaghan, 71, Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1976 to 1979; and Malcolm Fraser, 53, who was defeated as Prime Minister of Australia in March after eight years in office. During their three-day stay at the scenic mountain resort, the five former leaders reminisced, and criticized the policies of their successors. "What we have here," said a less than serious Schmidt, "is a beautiful experience: a conspiracy of former world leaders against present world leaders. But thank God none of us has the power to alter...
...half years in the planning, the new Undergraduate Council emerged last fall with an election turnout unprecedented for a student government at Harvard. More than half of all students voted in the three-day balloting, narrowing the field of more than 200 aspirants who competed for the council's 89 seats. On the surface, it was easy to understand the excitement. For the first time ever, undergraduates had a fully recognized representative organization, with direct links to the College's major advisory bodies. In addition, the student government sported a budget--$58,000 in all--collected from a voluntary...
...estimated 40,000 new voters were registered since May, increasing black registration by about 11%. Aiding the effort were Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young and Martin Luther King III, son of the slain civil rights leader. And, of course, Jesse Jackson, who staged a three-day barnstorming car caravan through the Delta country to spark a record black turnout in the primaries...
This is not a eulogy for NPR. The network continues to produce two outstanding news shows with one of the most talented staffs in the business. What's more, the listener support that poured in during the three-day fundraiser attests to the fact that people do recognize quality when they hear it. (Close to home, Boston public radio station WBUR raised $255,000, by far the largest amount given by any station...