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...seem more interested in making money for themselves than in redistributing it to the poor. "They tend to be entrepreneurial," says Tom Kiley, a political consultant in Boston. Notes Pollster Daniel Yankelovich: "They see that the liberals and conservatives haven't really solved the problems." The post-Viet Nam generation is wary of the U.S.'s trying to save the rest of the world. They look at El Salvador and see another potential quagmire...
...just one of the nuggets to be found in a statistical analysis, released by the U.S. Mission to the U.N. last week, of votes on contested issues before the General Assembly in 1983. Albania voted with the U.S. on only 4% of the votes studied; Laos, Viet Nam and Mozambique produced only slightly higher percentages. The study, requested by Congress last year, lends statistical support to the Reagan Administration's charge that the U.S. is isolated in an organization in which tiny nations that receive U.S. aid vote against it with impunity...
...siege and fall of Troy is, inexplicably, almost as wooden as the horse. Her enthusiastic expedition into papal territory (where she solemnly scolds, but obviously admires, the ferocious warrior-Pope Julius II) stops dead for impenetrable paragraphs dealing with Renaissance politics. The sharply polemical tone in the Viet Nam section undermines the intended message...
...Viet Nam, Watergate, the uncertainties of the nuclear age, the breakdown of families and neighborhoods have all spurred heightened concern with morality. Both Democrats and Republicans claim to see the light. While a Mondale can reasonably call on Government to take some from the wealthy and give it to the poor, a Reagan can logically cry for individual responsibility and community standards of decency...
...president of the World Council of Churches from 1961 to 1968. He continued to propound controversial views, arguing that Germans must bear collective guilt for World War II, defending pacifism resolutely and opposing many of the West's anti-Communist policies, including U.S. involvement in Viet Nam...