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...area. After some hesitation, French PresidentFrançois Mitterrand agreed last week to send 300 elite paratroopers as "trainers" and "advisers." But given the size of the Libyan commitment, which included 2,500 ground troops and impressive airpower, the limited U.S. and French assistance failed to turn the tide. In a press conference after the fall of Faya-Largeau, Reagan indicated that the Administration would not be sending further help for the time being. He noted that the U.S. could not play the role of "world policeman," and urged France to take the lead in Chad...
Customs officials say they are unable to stem the tide because they have neither the manpower nor the technology they need. They accuse the Commerce Department of often approving licenses for materials after Customs has seized them. All the agencies involved claim that the State Department lacks a clear policy. Says a senior Customs official: "As long as you can keep Defense, Commerce, Customs and the Office of Munitions Control separated, the Ayatullah's purchasing agents have it made...
...crusade. He speaks of "positive music, something that has an inward glow to it, something that still has something to say but is more than the general kind of nihilistic thing I and some of my peers have been associated with." Instead, he aims to "swim against the tide of lethargy and nihilism"?this from the same man who swam upstream in those very waters not seven years ago, spawning madly. Now what he wants is "a sound which says, 'This is what emotion feels like...
...weeks ago, Hollings unveiled a $14 billion program that would give $5,000-a-year raises to all 2.3 million public school teachers. Hollings also borrowed from the Bard: "Shall the public schools of this land be bound in shallows and in miseries, or shall we take the tide at the flood? This is education's tide . . . This is education's hour." On that point, at least, Republicans and Democrats agree...
Since the rebels lack transportation, heavy equipment and medicine, they must rely on resilience and resourcefulness. Their principal aim is to stem the tide of refugees. Along the exit route in the Panjshir Valley, for example, they check the papers of every would-be emigrant, turning back those without appropriate mujahedin documentation. In battle, the rebels specialize in bushwhacking tank columns, raiding army garrisons, blowing up power lines and assassinating members of the KhAD. Using Soviet land mines fished out of the ground with wooden pitchforks, they destroyed at least twelve enemy tanks in the Panjshir Valley last year...