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...foremost national education concern of the 1980s, much as equity was the premier issue of the 1960s and 1970s." The counterrevolution has actually been well under way for some time. In 1978 Harvard announced with great fanfare a controversial new core curriculum, and in 1980 Stanford inaugurated an elaborate system of seven tracks that would carry every student through the basics of Western civilization. "A miracle has happened among Stanford undergraduates," Charles Lyons, director of the Western-culture program, proudly told the faculty senate last spring. "They do talk about Plato at dinner and about Shakespeare on the lawns...
...relationship has always been a rather special one, occasionally baffling outsiders. "I don't understand you Americans backing Israel," Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin told Lyndon Johnson in 1967. "There are 80 million Arabs and only 3 million Jews. Why do it?" Johnson shot back: "Because it's right." Yet, as Ronald Reagan's anger over Israel's siege of West Beirut demonstrated last week, that "right"relationship can sometimes confound, even infuriate, the two nations...
Thus far, there is only one mouche in the onguent: the hotel's premier restaurant, supervised by the renowned chef Jacky Freon and set partly in a breathtaking patio garden, has yet to stir much enthusiasm among Parisians. Though it has a 16 (out of 20) rating from Gault et Millau, the authoritative Paris columnists (awarded before the hotel opened), other critics have found the restaurant memorable mostly for the Mozart played by a string trio at mealtimes. In any event, despite Halt's philosophy ("A guest should never have to stir outside his hotel"), Paris...
Equally disappointing, particularly to the 10 million Poles who were members of Solidarity before the independent trade union was suspended last year, was Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Rakowski's address to the Sejm. Rakowski claimed that a majority of the workers who had been in contact with the government favored a new structure in which unions would be organized by industries rather than by regions. Solidarity supporters disputed Rakowski's statement, seeing it as an attempt to weaken the independent trade-union movement. Said a 30-year-old skilled worker from Warsaw: "Maybe [Communist] Party members want such unions...
...rotors that are needed to pump the Soviet gas westward. Since the French company had acquired the right to produce these rotors under a licensing agreement from a U.S. company, General Electric, the French government was in effect telling Alsthom-Atlantique to violate the terms of the license. Said Premier Pierre Mauroy: "France cannot accept unilateral measures taken by the United States...