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...counting on White House support, but Reagan has not yet decided what stand, if any, to take on the renewal of the law. The legislative fight promises to be a bruising one, since blacks, Hispanics and their supporters are already charging that a failure to extend the law would undo much civil rights progress of the past 15 years...
...afternoon of his testimony, Haig was still brooding in his State Department office when he got a call from the President Reagan tried to reassure him, and told him that a statement would soon be issued. Haig was apparently convinced by the conversation that the President planned to undo the appointment. But then at 6:20 p.m., State Department Spokesman William Dyess broke into Haig's office with word that Bush had indeed been named crisis manager. Haig was stunned. "This must be wrong," he muttered. To assess the situation, Haig then consulted with his top aides...
...same has been said of soccer, and a French team of inquiry felt likewise about boxing. Though South Africa's national pastime, rugby, remains aggressively white, the Springboks squad now has one mulatto player. However admirable the blacklist may be, many South Africans fear that it threatens to undo this progress. Warns the pro-government Johannesburg Citizen: "There will be a tendency to say 'To hell with it all, we might as well forget about mixed sport and international contacts and play the game as we wish...
...threatening and supportive of India. Because of a record of more than 30 years, Soviet ships in the Indian Ocean are perceived as benign, whereas American ships raise the threat of a superpower confrontation." One ray of hope is that Soviet actions, such as the invasion of Afghanistan, will undo that country's public relations prowess, and that the U.S. will not repeat policy shifts that angered the Indians, such as the Carter Administration's withholding of promised nuclear fuel. Says Goheen: "All the public diplomacy in the world cannot overcome the erratic or threatening actions...
...Michigan stadium. Reagan was a bit more in scale than the flamboyant Texan last week, but his people in his arena, a joint session of Congress, cheered and whistled as if their team were on the 10-yd. line and heading for a score. That Reagan was proposing to undo a lot of Johnson's "too great society" was another of the wonderful ironies of this risky moment in U.S. affairs. "Reagan is not the first person to talk this way," points out Harvard's Roger Porter, who worked in Gerald Ford's White House, "but Reagan...