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...might, the Reagan Administration cannot seem to avoid controversy in its espousal of the Nicaraguan rebels who are seeking to overthrow their country's Sandinista government. Last week the White House was stuck with two new varieties of contra fuss. In the first case, a group of American citizens was kidnaped by the rebels. In the second, the White House had to come to grips with revelations that it has sailed close to the edges of a congressional ban on direct military aid to the insurgents. The Administration's controversial move was assigning a member of the National Security Council...
...heart of Porter's teaching will be that lesson of New York City. "People underestimate their capacity for change," says Porter. "There is never a right time to do a difficult thing. No one is going to make a change that involves pain if they think they can avoid it. A President's job is to help people have a vision of their potential. A great disservice is done when we don't help them understand they have most of the responsibility for their lives...
That there was any meeting at all in Casablanca was a minor victory for some of the Arab moderates, notably Jordan's Hussein. Since 1982, Syria, Libya and the other absentee states have blocked efforts to hold any kind of Arab summit in order to avoid a public show of Arab differences...
...best way to avoid all types of skin cancer is simply to stay out of the sun, especially during the peak-intensity hours of midday. For those who cannot resist its lure, doctors urge the use of sunscreens designed to block ultraviolet radiation. People who have already had a basal-cell carcinoma run a 25% risk of developing another and must be especially cautious. Last week Reagan admitted that this advice was "a little heartbreaking ... because all my life I've lived with a coat of tan, dating back to my lifeguard days...
...were already having second thoughts about entering into another partnership with the Soviets. Stalin was, to say the least, a troublesome ally in the occupation of liberated Europe. When news of the successful Alamogordo test reached Potsdam, top American officials began to view the Bomb as a way to avoid the need for Soviet involvement in the Pacific war, rather than viewing Soviet involvement as a way to avoid the need for the Bomb. Secretary of State James Byrnes, Truman's closest confidant on atomic matters, was eager to "get the Japanese affair over before the Russians...