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Johnson was under attack from community leaders in the areas of Roxbury and Dorchester that were under his command. The Globe reported, because the police were unable to stem the area's large drug trade. The community sources reportedly attributed the failure to Johnson's inability to work well with his subordinates...
Americans have stopped a President from a flagrant and clumsy attempt to obstruct an investigation against himself. "A President cannot command," Cox comments. "He can only persuade," But when opinion is the bound of his powers, he can still deceive. When another President contends our troops in Lebanon are at peace, so he can avoid the restraints of the War Powers Act; when he alludes to vague security threats in Grenada, but bars reporters and obstructs the public's critical vision of threat; when he distorts details and invents rationalizations for his policies, what effect can a firestorm have...
...preparing to manufacture a provocation that would justify an invasion. The revitalization of a Central American defense alliance known as CONDECA might serve as the vehicle to launch an American attack. The military chiefs of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala secretly met with the head of the U.S. Southern Command a month ago in Guatemala and agreed that the aims of CONDECA included "the use of force against Marxism." Edgar Chamorro, a leader of the Nicaraguan Democratic Force (FDN), the largest of the CIA-backed contra groups, predicts that the O.E.C.S.-sponsored invasion of Grenada will serve as a model...
...calls for a two year "grace period," when a commission will supposedly find these people "useful" employment. But no one-seems clear on how this will happen. Will the commission create a new industry, and then re-train people so that they may command comparable salaries? That's ridiculous...
...that Holy Cross were a mockery team of snow, standing before the sun of fair Harvard, to melt itself away in water-drops! Good Crimson, great Crimson, and yet not greatly good, and if its ability be sterling yet in Division I-AA, let it command an upset hither straight, that it may show Harvard what pride it has since it is bankrupt of the Ivy lead...