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...aide. Perhaps so, but the apparatus for handling those issues is in an uneasy transition stage at a critical time. It remains to be seen whether Clark's current pre-eminence as an adviser is a foretaste of the new order or is due simply to the immediate vacuum around Reagan. Even within the White House there are worries not only about Clark's inexperience but also about the quality of the NSC staff. If foreign policy is indeed going to be made at the White House, the President is sure to need more help than...
...Harrison is right to decry the heavyhanded ways in which modern obstetrics is practiced. But the problems are not just medical, they are societal. Obstetricians do not build their practices in a vacuum, or by being mean to people. The great majority of women demand artificially doctored maternity. To rely on one's own innate ability to give birth is generally considered less safe, more painful and plain oldfashioned. Doctors have engendered this false dogma, but women have embraced it enthusiastically. It is up to mothers as well as doctors to make our way of birth simpler and more...
...clearly in charge. The Defense and State Departments have sharply contrasting perspectives on world affairs. Rarely, if ever, has there been an Administration headed by a President and a White House inner circle that is less equipped to reconcile those differences. The result is a gaping vacuum at the center. And that, of course, was not Al Haig's fault...
...peace-keeping force. Said a top U.S. official: "We still believe Begin means it when he says he wants to hold not a centimeter of Lebanese soil. But we also know damn well that the Israelis will never withdraw until they are satisfied with the force that fills the vacuum...
...guts may open and snap shut, taking a bystander's hands off in the process. Or a head may come loose, sprout insect legs and toddle off across the floor. Designer Rob Bottin's work is novel and unforgettable, but since it exists in a near vacuum emotionally, it becomes too domineering dramatically and something of an exercise in abstract art. The weird lad down the block, the one who is always fooling around with his chemistry set, will love The Thing. The rest of the neighborhood is likely to find it more of a squeamer than...