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...Europe. Although the Soviets are now hesitating, perhaps in response to Reagan's current political weakness, one test is already close to bearing fruit: Reagan's "zero-option" challenge to eliminate Soviet and American nuclear missiles from Europe. The removal of medium- and shorter-range missiles, however, would weaken the West's capacity to deter a conventional Soviet attack. Thus, the key to the Soviets' intentions, in the words of James Schlesinger, lies in how they answer the question "Are they willing to bring about an alleviation of the military threat against Western Europe...
...never back down from a fight. Your commencement speaker cheers you for that, and hopes you do not weaken or think safe. Still, it helps to learn that some fights are too small for kindling, and if you must fight out of your weight class, always fight up. Hatred without a fight is self-consuming, and fighting without hatred is purposeless, so regretfully he wishes you some hatred too. But not much, and not to hold too long. There is always more cheapness in the world than you suspect, but less than you believe at the time it touches...
...which maintains a force of 40,000 troops in South Korea and regards Seoul as a strategically important ally, Chun's latest retreat from democratic reform presents a dilemma. Some Washington officials claim that the U.S. is unwilling to punish South Korea's political abuses because any action might weaken the country militarily or economically. Yet other observers of U.S. foreign policy are seriously wondering whether Washington's failure to take tougher stands against South Korea's government might itself be contributing to the country's underlying problem. Says Democratic Congressman Stephen Solarz, chairman of the Asian and Pacific Affairs...
Williams said Harvard's top-level minorityhiring has suffered in the past from insufficientefforts to find minority applicants. Manyofficials responsible for hiring may be unsurewhether to consider race because of PresidentReagan's efforts to weaken affirmative actionprograms and others are not aware that theUniversity has targeted a higher number ofminorities for their department, Williams said...
Will the current furor weaken the evangelical movement, which has gained enormous impact and visibility over the past two decades? Sociologist James Davison Hunter of the University of Virginia thinks not. "It is very much a populist movement that derives its strength from the vision of reality it holds and an expansive set of institutions which sustain that vision," he observes. "The TV ministry is a small part of this. A visible part, but a small part...