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...said in an hour-long speech to the People's Assembly on the day after the return of the Sinai. At the same time, Mubarak has left little doubt that he will gradually seek to repair the ties with the Arab world that were broken when his predecessor, Anwar Sadat, signed the treaty with Israel. Mubarak will probably not waste much time on Libya or on Syria, which vowed last week to "foil all attempts to welcome Egypt back into the Arab world." But the improvement of relations with the moderate Arab states has already begun. Last week...
Bennett's sense of direction may be admirably emphatic, but some humanists are fearful that if he defines the humanities too narrowly, important groups in the U.S. may be excluded. Says Predecessor Duffey: "Political pressures heave up against this agency all the time. But if you abandon the effort to maintain a credible peer review system, then you're turning the NEH into a kind of fiefdom." Bennett categorically rejects any implication that he has been asked to dismantle programs designed by and for traditionally liberal constituencies. He insists: "I have not had any suggestions from the White...
...Like its predecessor Mad Max (1979), The Road Warrior is set in the postnuclear future. The world has been totaled; civilization is a white-line junkyard; the only amenity is staying alive. Where there was high culture, now there is only car culture. In one of the film's first images, an automobile breaks angrily through one side of the truck that has been holding it; this is the caesarean birth of the new mutant marauders. They race across the scarred landscape on stripped-down motorcycles, killing for fuel, raping for fun, going to hell at 80 m.p.h...
...supposed to be that way. As now seems to happen whenever a U.S. election changes party control of the White House, the new Administration takes office with one overriding imperative in foreign affairs: to do things differently from its predecessor. In Reagan's case, that meant abandoning Jimmy Carter's vacillating and sometimes mushy moralism and proclaiming a back-to-basics foreign policy. The U.S. would treat the Soviets as outlaws and villains, sternly oppose their expansionism-by force if need be-and consider Moscow's enemies to be friends deserving support...
...squabbling among the candidates O'Neill, desperate for attention, had said all along that he would debate under almost any conditions. But the other two differed over the determination of the subject matter King all along wanted to limit the debate to taxes, which he obviously thinks is his predecessor's weakest issue. Dukakis said he would only participate in a general debate, hoping to score points on King on the issue of corruption Focusing the exchange on taxes and revenue was the compromise...