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For an American President to lend legitimacy to the Marcos regime by paying it a state visit would be an insult to the dignity and values of the American and Filipino people. The notion that the use of the Philippine bases is dependent on the good will of President Marcos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 26, 1983 | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

When, acting on the President's instructions, she refused to yield the documents, she was slapped in December with the first contempt of Congress citation ever given to such a high official. She says she vainly tried to convince Reagan at a Feb. 18 meeting that his course was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lonely at the EPA Top | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

Or so he naturally expects. From the beginning he has led a productive, patrician life of unimpeded success. After graduating from Harvard, Nitze amassed a fortune during the Depression as an investment banker. In government since 1940, he oversaw the creation of the Marshall Plan and the NATO Alliance; in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nitze Approach: Hard Line, Deft Touch | 1/31/1983 | See Source »

It is a seductive but wrongheaded argument. Import restrictions on cheaper or better tools would mean that the domestic industry would no longer be forced to match foreign competition. This would mean the U.S. manufacturers who buy machine tools would have to make do with more expensive, less sophisticated or...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Protectionist Temptation | 1/10/1983 | See Source »

SO IT WILL do no good to convert more people to a wrongheaded Christianity; it is the Church itself that must be converted, or perhaps rejuvenated, till it resembles the early, activist, Christian church. There is a single American precedent-the civil rights movements of the 1960s was born in...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Beyond El Salvador | 12/17/1981 | See Source »

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