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...applause to Secretary of State George Shultz, the chief architect of the plan, when he addressed a meeting of the United Jewish Appeal last week in Manhattan. But the same audience two nights later gave a much warmer reception to an attack on the plan by Shultz's predecessor...
...true talent rare, and it takes prehistoric monsters like Fleetwood Mac and Crosby. Stills and Nash to deliver the goods. On Marshall Crenshaw, every last track could easily put most of the FM top forty to shame. Eleven perfect singles are served up, each one seemingly stronger than its predecessor. Furthermore, Crenshaw's melodies are hopelessly addictive; they're just short enough to hook the listener but not entirely satisfy him. Back in the '60s, John Lennon and Paul McCartney made a career of just such tactics...
...first centralized and funded student government justifies crippling RUS, so long the only voice of women undergraduates. But student government is in great confusion and students are unsure what shape, if any, the new government will take. It may well become the menagerie of megalomaniacs that its pathetic predecessor was. The fall, then, may be one of the worst times in recent memory to ask students to evaluate the need for RUS, especially since recently arrived freshmen are not yet aware of RUS' record...
Begin's rhetoric was more high-pitched, his images more starkly drawn than his predecessor's. All of Israel's older generation of statesmen had been deeply affected by the Holocaust-many in tragically personal ways, as was Begin-but Begin somehow seemed more indelibly marked by it, almost in fact to the point of obsession...
...according to some Western analysts, is Vitali Fedorchuk, who replaced Yuri Andropov as head of the secret police last May. Fedorchuk, who won a reputation for harsh treatment of dissidents when he was the KGB's chief in the Ukraine, is believed to be more sensitive than his predecessor to police complaints that there is too much contact between Soviet citizens and the outside world...