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...third term representing the Fifth District north of Boston, has already mastered the art of getting things done. He is a liberal with clout, and should continue to be effective in stopping and reversing the arms race and pushing for meaningful negotiations with the Soviet Union. A non-interventionist whose rhetoric occasionally borders on the isolationist. Shannon will nonetheless provide a strong opposition to President Reagan's tendency toward military adventurism...
...third term representing the Fifth District north of Boston, has already mastered the art of getting things done. He is a liberal with clout, and should continue to be effective in stopping and reversing the arms race and pushing for meaningful negotiations with the Soviet Union. A non-interventionist whose rhetoric occasionally borders on the isolationist, Shannon will nonetheless provide a strong opposition to President Reagan's tendency toward military adventurism...
...recent manifestation of the "no-more-Vietnams" sentiment among youth was the surge of support for Sen. Gary W. Hart (D-Colo.) in the recent primaries after Hart, without the sublety or the shadings of a Karnow or even a Walter F. Mondale, advocated an unequivocal non-interventionist line vis-a-vis the Middle East and Central America...
What has happened since June, 1982 exemplifies the new interventionist brand of money management at Harvard. HMC had shifted heavily into stocks (at one point, almost 80 percent of the endowment was in stocks). But last December, accurately sensing an imminent tumble in the market, the company took a $300 million slug out of equities and put it into bonds, and rearranged stock holdings to include more health care and small technology companies. These two industries proved to be the only sectors rising at all in a sleepy market...
Jackson's foreign policies are radically non-interventionist, with a pro-Third World tilt. Like Hart and Mondale, he favors a freeze on building and deploying nuclear weapons. He would cut American military forces in Europe and Japan in half over five years, arguing that allies should pay for more of their own defense, which he says now costs the U.S. $150 billion a year. Critics note correctly that his defense planks would tempt Soviet adventurism, but Jackson dismisses such talk as alarmist. To ease cold war tensions and revive arms-control talks, he would "aggressively negotiate" with...