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...Lewis like so many others, called for that day. Organizers are realistic about the difficulties ahead. "The march is just a beginning. In order for this to do any good, we'll have to continue beyond August 27," a local organizer said recently. But the anniversary march like its predecessor, can hope to stand as testimony that many Americans do in fact "Still Have a Dream...
...Watt was backpedaling, another official was also making readjustments for the Administration. Speaking at a breakfast meeting with reporters, William Ruckelshaus, appointed four months ago to head the scandal-rocked Environmental Protection Agency, admitted that former agency officials had "confused ends and means" in setting environmental policy. Without naming Predecessor Anne Burford, Ruckelshaus said that the previous regime had misunderstood the difference between economic and social regulation. The Government's decision to drop its controls of the trucking and airline industries had wide support, he said, "but the situation is much different when you're talking about health...
...greatest danger of de facto partition is that a prolonged Israeli-Syrian face-off in Lebanon will eventually deteriorate into all-out war. That is reason enough for the U.S. to send Special Envoy McFarlane to Syria this week to pursue a goal that both his predecessor Philip Habib and Secretary of State Shultz have failed to achieve: the mutual withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops. A rookie in Middle East affairs, McFarlane might want to ponder the wisdom of the sign that hangs in the office of the United Nations peace-keeping force in the Lebanese town of Naqura...
Irons' responsibilities will not be as broad as those of his predecessor, Jackson, who served as associate dean and was a close confidante of Dean Graham T. Allison '62. Irons will handle publications and public relations, but will not oversee construction of the new K-School wing or head the K-School's affirmative action program as Jackson...
...Costa Rica has begun to experience tremors of violence that in some cases can be traced to the leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua, whose rise Costa Ricans enthusiastically abetted. Providing sanctuary and financial support for the Sandinistas during their 1979 revolution was a top priority of Monge's predecessor, Rodrigo Carazo Odio. Now, however, Monge is convinced that Nicaragua is becoming increasingly repressive and dangerously dependent on the Soviets and the Cubans...