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...Reagan system is relaxed, though, it is also in its way rigidly enforced. Alexander Haig, for one, never caught on to the President's style. Accustomed to the Army chain of command, Haig constantly pressed Reagan for decisions on matters where his views clashed with those of the White House staff. Says one observer: "That was outside the rules." It was no small part of the reason why Reagan accepted Haig's resignation as Secretary of State before it had been formally offered...
When Ike was elected some of his critics were genuinely concerned about a "military mind" in the White House. Admirers who understood Ike's extraordinary kind of command success, at least as much political and diplomatic as military, may have expected a presidential greatness he did not quite achieve...
...Most students" at the conference have spent months diligently preparing for the conference. "Most students" attend and participate in their committees. "Most students" will leave the HMUN with a better understanding of the complex world we live in. It is these students who we would like to command and thank properly for making HMUN '82 a success. Paul Michalski HMUN Public Relations Director Don Hernandez Secretary-General
...also sent 200 military advisers to Honduras, but it reduced its contingent to a skeleton crew during the Falklands war last spring. Meanwhile, Washington established its own links with the Honduran military. Honduran soldiers were sent to training camps in Panama run by the U.S. Army's Southern Command Group (SOUTHCOM) and standard field equipment was provided...
...Professor Lichty puts it, "The widely accepted notion that Mr. Rather and his rivals each command a vast, devoted nightly following seems farfetched." Together the nightly newscasts on the three networks gather an audience of 50 million. It is a sizable number, even when split three ways, but does not add up to "most Americans." Besides, Lichty says, it is a fickle and fluctuating audience: "Only 1% of all 78.3 million American television households watch Rather as often as four or five nights a week." The Television Information Office disputes these figures, and counters with a Nielsen report that...