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...surrender of its oilfields, frontier towns and strategic buffer zone--as impressive as it is--has not accomplished the goals first proposed in 1977 by the late Anwar Sadat and later nurtured by Jimmy Carter. The dream of lasting peace has faded behind the smoke of gun battles and vehement declarations from various combatants that no more concessions will be made. Instead of the first giant step toward a new understanding, the completion of the Sinai agreement has ironically become an exception in a furious conflict...
...Senator Charles Mathias heard distant bugle calls and fought all the way for the monument. Illinois' meddlesome Congressman Henry Hyde carelessly spread misinformation and doubt, impugning the sponsors of the idea. Democratic Presidential Candidate George McGovern, who ran in 1972 and was one of the first and most vehement opponents of the war, rallied behind the campaign. Texan Ross Perot intruded with ideas for bigger and grander edifices and statues. With little fanfare, Nancy Reagan penned thank-you notes to hundreds of the donors among the 250,000 who contributed a total of $6 million...
...most vehement flurry of words has come over the Reagan Administration's assertion of human rights progress in El Salvador. The official U.S. view of the situation was restated last week in the State Department's annual country-by-country survey of human rights practices around the world. In 1981 in El Salvador, says the report, "human rights violations were frequent, but there was a downward trend in political violence." By the count of the U.S. embassy in El Salvador, there were 6,116 violent deaths during the twelve months, against 9,000 in 1980. The report says...
Reagan's advisers say he was surprised by the vehement reaction to the change in IRS practice. This may be the worst indictment of the Administration. It shows an apparent insensitivity to a basic American belief: that government should do nothing to promote racial discrimination. - By Walter Isaacson...
Despite their apparent comeback, debate on whether or not to admit women continues, though less hotly at the two military schools. There, cadets tend to agree with a vehement V.M.I, official: "There is no such thing as a Sister Rat, and there never could be." At the other schools, opinion is divided. By one estimate, 60% of the students at Wabash are against coeducation, the faculty is split evenly, and alumni are 95% opposed...