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Nothing could have been that simple, but the people in Washington sure went to the other extreme. There were ridiculous body counts. Charlie Company would take a useless piece of real estate one day, only to hand it back over to the enemy by nightfall. The inept leadership allowed soldiers to lob mortar and shells on their own men. And all during this time, politicians argued about the shape of the table in the Paris "peace" conference. "We're in the jungle with two canteens and two C-rations," one soldier remembers, "and they're arguing about what kind...
...ACSR, whose existence as a screening body would be rendered entirely useless by this principle, has sensibly drafted a statement to tonight's Corporation meeting, urging Harvard to consult screening guidelines before buying a stock. We urge the Corporation to pay attention to this commonsense recommendation. Any other course would undercut the whole concept of shareholder responsibility and compromise morality for sophistry...
...news from other battlefronts has been no better. The Salvadoran armed forces, led by Defense Minister José GuillermoGarcia, have shown neither resolve nor proficiency. Ignoring U.S. advice, the Salvadoran military has wasted its energy in useless sweeps of remote hinterland areas, while the guerrillas have scored easy but psychologically important victories by briefly occupying towns in the country's economic heartland. A guerrilla campaign of economic devastation continues practically undeterred; last week much of the country was plunged once again into temporary darkness after guerrilla forces blew up a series of electrical power lines...
...work or that cost too much to buy in sufficient quantities, and instead to concentrate on small, reliable, and cheap weapons. Applying this principle, Hart recently proposed a defense budget that would save more than $100 billion in spending authority over the next five years by eliminating useless gadgets like the MX, the B-1B, the Bradley fighting vehicle, and AH-64 attack helicopter, and the F-18 fighter. Hart, incidentally, supports the nuclear weapons freeze...
...that the elections will have no legitimacy. Members of the opposition are labelled subversives and would be in great danger in public in the urban areas of El Salvador. Rebels cannot place themselves at the rightists' mercy by laying down their arms. Silva maintains that attempts at reform are useless unless they "put the two parts together." The rebels made an offer for neutrally mediated negotiation last October. Silva says the offer still stands...