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...Peruvians), would be the underdog in any set-to with its northern neighbor, partly because it has found modern weapons almost impossible to buy. Reason: the U.S. and Britain have imposed tight embargoes on sales of arms to General Augusto Pinochet's regime because of its callous record on human rights. Although Chile has begun receiving about 50 American F-5E and A-37 warplanes, ordered before the embargo, they may not be a match for Peru's Russian-made Su-22s, especially if Soviet training improves the quality of Peruvian pilots...
...Michael W. Brown-Beasley is no dummy, and he does, so to speak, have a banana converter--the Harvard University Salaried Personnel Manual. So while his discrimination complaint, filed with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR), may seem like callous or misguided exploitation of public interest in the recent "Harvard prostitution scandal," it is in fact a serious attempt to attack what Brown-Beasley sees as procedural errors in his firing. The complaint is also hardly a random shot in the dark: since being dismissed as assistant to the director of Fiscal Services on August 4, Brown-Beasley has been...
...admits, perfect. He can be a cold, inscrutable person. Superficially this seems a marked contrast to "nice guy" Jerry Ford. But the president's supposed personal decency like Carter's personal reserve, does not intrude on his political decisions. For evidence one need only turnt to the callous bombing of mainland Cambodia after the belligerent Mayaguez rescue operation; to Ford's effort to impeach ex-Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas for writing an article in a pornographic magazine; and to his Whip Inflation Now program, which helped plunge the country into a severe recession and expanded mass unemployment...
...fireworks by Equus of England and South Africa's Sizwe Banzi is Dead). It survived a stormy infancy, including a Pulitzer abortion at birth in 1963 (nominated, then rejected for being offensive), early charges of obscenity and immorality, vicious rumors (Was the play really written for four homosexuals?) and callous adolescent pranks (an Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie version with more fangs than heart, 1966) to emerge as a classic of the American theater. The current production at the Colonial shows that passage through 15 controversial years has not dated the play, but enriched...
Martin Mayer's Today and Tomorrow in America is harder and more brisk, crackling with intelligence and a certain contempt for what he sees as the stupidities of American public policy. Ideologically, his book will probably be read by some as a callous, you-can't-make-an-omelette-without-breaking-eggs dia tribe against social planners, academics in public life and environmentalists. Among his dicta: "Adjustments that take the reward structure too far out of line with contributions produce economic decay . . . An entirely disproportionate share of medical attention goes to the chronic, hopeless ills of the aged...