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...nation's various factions were able to unite on an issue: they were all opposed to the reservation. Former Panamanian Foreign Minister Aquilino Boyd, who had negotiated the treaty with Henry Kissinger, denounced the reservation as "immoral because the strong once again are trying to wield excessive power over the weak." Said a U.S. official in Panama: "Idi Amin couldn't live with this reservation and survive." Aware that his leadership could be at stake, Torrijos complained: "Listening to DeConcini, I ask myself the question: Have we by any chance lost a war? The U.S. didn...
...course there are pitching woes with the Penn ballclub, but the Quakers wield some mean war clubs at the plate. Penn led the league in team hitting last year with an obnoxious .322 mark, and the Quakers seem to be picking up where they left off. Through the first 18 games Penn batted a .318 as a team, but its earned run average was a sorry...
...confirmation and insight in each other's work. It is deeply offensive that, in a lecture to student writers, Mr. Riesman should suggest that any woman in his audience lay down her pen and take up the diaper and the broom, in order to enable men, once more, to wield unchallenged the power of words. Cynthia Rich
Thank you for the article on Governor Jerry Brown's energy and space programs [Jan. 30]. I find more and more to like about that renegade politician; he seems to wield his power with intelligence and without dollar waste. Right or wrong, the man has both courage and vision...
Precisely how much power Turner will wield remains to be seen. The legislation establishing the CIA in 1947 gave the director, as his title suggests, a certain degree of authority over all the intelligence agencies; he was charged with "coordinating" their activities. But he only loosely performed that function. The new executive order considerably enhances the director's authority and responsibility. He has control of the total intelligence budget (an estimated $7 billion a year) and the right to give assignments to all the agencies. Turner's position ultimately depends on the power realities of Washington and his own abilities...