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...this issue TIME publishes excerpts from that book, titled Beyond Peace. It is a kind of last testament from Richard Nixon. It is a tartly apt critique of American foreign policy. His timing was uncanny. The book arrives just as a welter of post-cold-war crises, from Bosnia to Korea, have thrown American policies into deepening disarray. And, as always, his focus on foreign affairs was designed to draw attention to the area of his presidency in which his accomplishments outweighed his failures...
...three months, a team of bleary-eyed scientists, sociologists and economists was sequestered behind an unmarked door on the 14th floor of the U.S. Bancorp Tower in Portland, Oregon, working 14-hour days, seven days a week, amid a welter of maps, coffee cups and stale pizza. Their mission, direct from the President: explore every conceivable option for preserving the Northwest's ancient forests and its wildlife, while saving whatever can be saved of the once proud and productive timber industry...
...Reno, who had already pretty much captivated Washington with one gutsy performance after another, achieved full-fledged folk-hero status. She was cheered by people throughout official Washington who had endured similar assaults by Conyers and other posturing lawmakers. She was cheered in the Clinton White House, where a welter of bad news had soured what was supposed to have been a celebration of the President's first 100 days in office. She was cheered on both sides of the aisle in Congress and in her own Justice Department, where a succession of 25-watt, responsibility-ducking Attorneys General...
Today that committee's proposals are held up by a morass of regulations on age discrimination, so such ideas as payments for retiring professors and five-year "senior professorships" to ease faculty members into emeritus status are waiting on the welter of legal complications...
...presidential Administration (Harding's) was reeling in a welter of scandal, most of it dealing with accusations of graft. The anticipated federal deficit was -- are you ready? -- $180 million and, according to Washington -- ready again? -- soon would be wiped out. The government reported that the U.S. (pop. 111,947,000) had 10 million registered passenger cars and 20,550,000 horses. A helicopter stayed aloft at 15 feet for 2 minutes and 45 seconds. Southern blacks, hounded by poverty and a rampaging Ku Klux Klan, were moving to the North in large numbers...