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Merengue madness is not shared throughout the Caribbean. Just as there are shadings in style -- Haitian merengue, for example, has a heavier African inflection -- there are differences among people whose musical tastes can be as vehement as their politics. "The trouble with Dominicans is they don't know how to dance," grumps a Puerto Rican music-business entrepreneur in New York City. But the numbers are against...
...even more vehement attack comes from ABC Nightline Correspondent and Syndicated Columnist Jeff Greenfield. "What we have done by the sheer quantity of stories is to imply that a very serious problem has become the most pressing domestic crisis," says Greenfield. "We have helped create an atmosphere in which hysterical legislation is more likely to pass." Hodding Carter, host of PBS's Capitol Journal, agrees. "What the media have done is to throw the blood into the water and then look back and say, 'My, my, the sharks are feeding on this blood in Congress,' " said Carter on the MacNeil...
...move, however, did nothing to quiet the ferocious criticism Reagan had to endure. Conservatives were most vehement in criticizing the President for even thinking about a summit or an arms-control deal while Daniloff awaits trial on a charge that could theoretically be punished by death. Columnist George Will sneered that the Administration had collapsed "like a punctured balloon," and the Washington Times editorially flung the conservatives' supreme insult: "Jimmy Carter, by comparison, was tough and crafty...
...anyone has a chance of laying out a sound middle path for U.S. policy, it is Lugar. Late last week, Delaware Democrat Joseph Biden, one of the Senate's most vehement supporters of tough sanctions, said, "I will truly listen to whatever Dick Lugar has to say on South Africa, and I think there's a reasonable prospect he will propose something with real teeth...
Very privately, the U.S. picked up some support in the Arab world. Radical Arab states condemned the military strike in shrill, vehement and threatening terms, conservative nations in ritualistic tones. But their confidential comments differed markedly from their public ones. Said one Arab government minister: "Gaddafi has done more harm to us (by fomenting terrorism) than to the Americans. The only problem with the attack on Libya is that you didn...