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...calculus of the right, flag and family have never been independent variables: A threat to one is a threat to the other. Communism would abolish the family, and conversely, any loosening of our traditional sex roles would weaken our defense against communism. So you did not have to believe in the natural inferiority of women, or in the necessity of their natural confinement to the high-tech purdah of American middle class kitchens, to see that there was something menacing about feminism...
...Washington will create a dilemma for the Reagan Administration. Having sponsored the Israeli-Lebanese withdrawal agreement, the U.S. is committed to it. At a time when it is hoping that Israel will agree to take a more active role in the region, the U.S. will find it difficult to weaken its support for an agreement the Israelis consider important. Yet the U.S. also believes that national reconciliation is the only road to stability for Lebanon, and may have to make a gesture of support for the only result so far of the Geneva conference. As Walid Jumblatt, no friend...
With the collapse of colonial rule in Angola, Mozambique, and the white settler government in Rhodesia, the time for change in South Africa began running out. The constitutional reform, if passed today, will not weaken the anti-apartheid struggle for long. Already the African National Congress (ANC), a movement dedicated to the anti-apartheid struggle, has stepped up bomb attacks on South African military holdings...
This would hurt the community, they contend, because the Cambridge Hospitals provides most of the free care in the city, and closing the department might weaken other parts of that hospital. The Cambridge Hospitals is also Harvard-affiliated, and with Mt. Auburn has run an obstetrics training program for the Medical school...
Peter Smith, an MIT political science professor, said, "It is very possible that the political fallout [of the invasion] will not stregthen, but weaken," Reagan's chance for re-election