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...groups, Davis and other discontented members say, are operating in a "political vacuum." "We should have stuck to our guns," says one NOW staffer who asks not to be identified, nothing that failing to endorse Anderson has splintered both groups and alienated some members to the point where they struck out on their own. "Anderson supported us and we didn't support him," one malcontent contends. "It just makes us look indecisive and politically ineffective...
...time, McKee's solution was John Anderson. "I have admiration for him. He's the best candidate. He's refreshing and outspoken." Like others who have drifted away from Anderson, however, McKee is afraid that the independent cannot win. Says he: "If I was in a vacuum, if I didn't know about the polls, I'd go ahead and vote for him. But I feel so strongly that I want to lock Carter out, that if I have to vote for Reagan, that's what...
...order" could be maintained at any expense. When he can no longer hold out--no matter which American candidate assumes office--the U.S. will either have to orchestrate a deft diplomacy or lose its influence in the Philippines. The State Department's motives are perfectly understandable in a historical vacuum: but the tragedy of the Philippines lies in American foreign policymakers' refusals to absorb the lessons of the past. It will be intriguing to see how America tries to defend its global interests in the region when confronted by yet another government which views the U.S. as downright treasonous...
...about its secretive preliminary report on admissions, and rightly so. The report suggests that minority students and women at top universities do not perform as well as aptitude test scores would indicate, and that Jewish students perform better. But it makes judgments about student performance and "success" in a vacuum, focusing mostly on standardized test scores and examining them with no attention to social, economic and historical factors, breaking students down instead into groups like "women," "Blacks," and "Jews." It irresponsibly reduces people to statistics; that anyone could consider it valid is cause for fear...
...possible for Saddam Hussein to create a new Middle East axis of Iraq-Saudi Arabia-Jordan to replace the old axis of Iran-Saudi Arabia-Egypt. That old one fell apart when the Shah collapsed and Anwar Sadat isolated himself by signing the Camp David treaty. That left a vacuum, which Saddam Hussein, with a lot of help from King Hussein, is now trying to fill...