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...current Administration's policy in LaFeber's eyes, therefore, represents a continuation of the age-old practice of preventing revolution in Central America by supporting repressive regimes combined with Cold War reflexes...
Currently, popular support for public schools rarely solidifies into real results. The age-old Parent-Teacher Association offers one line, but ignores the interests of most of the community. Schools need broader organizations linking the support and input of business leaders, civic activists, school alumni, and neighborhood residents. Here, as elsewhere, public educators can learn from private schools that have traditionally mastered the art of tapping every potential vein of support, financial and otherwise. The importance of this link for public schools intensifies as a growing proportion of an ever-graying population loses parental ties to the schools. Already...
...industrial policy will wax and wane. I don't have great hopes that the debate will be enhanced in the next year. My expectation is quite the contrary, that the public debate of industrial policy probably will resort to more caricature and people will see it as the age-old debate between free market and central planning. That will be fairly short-lived. After the election, regardless of who wins. I hope that that element of industrial policy will become quiet for a while, and the more interesting portion of the debate will continue...
...presence of the Marines in Lebanon [Sept. 19] exacerbates the tensions there. The U.S. should remove its troops and let the factions settle their age-old scores. Peace might not ensue, but at least the dead will not include Americans...
...diversity of interest--and a core of homogeneity. To a one, the scientists and historians, librarians and astronomers contacted recently complained that summer months pass far too quickly. Ask how they spent their time, however, and the similarities end; here, then are their individual answers to the age-old question: How I spent my vacation...