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...Reagan Doctrine." But President Reagan is clearly not a bit timid about using U.S. military might abroad to serve what he sees as important national ends. "This President," says White House Chief of Staff James Baker, "has shown that the U.S. can project American power abroad in a prudent and responsible...
...Prudent or not, U.S. power is now projected from the halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli: the first of more than 5,500 Army and Marine troops landed in Honduras last week to begin months of deadly serious war games, and 550 Air Force personnel arrived in the Sudan with eight F-15 fighters, two KC-10A tankers and a pair of AWACS radar planes prepared to track Libya's Soviet-made jets bombing Chad (see WORLD). Whatever the arguments about its prospects in one place or another, the new expansiveness is being questioned on practical grounds...
Business and journalism are in a more even balance now. More facts are on public record; corporations have set up sophisticated public relations operations; executives often find it prudent to talk to the press even when the news is embarrassing. All business magazines routinely back-check figures with corporate sources. But they do not provide a prepublication chance to learn what a competitor said or allow a quote by one of the corporation's own executives to be modified. Nobody wants to put out a Congressional Record full of flattened-out prose and "extended remarks...
...first signs are small, puzzling and all too easy to dismiss. For Chicago Journalist Charles Leroux, it was his mother's diminishing ability to manage her checkbook and count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife and her increasing tendency to garble phone messages. For Eleanor Zimmerlein, an Illinois farmer's wife, it was the decline in the quality of her husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn...
...Prudent, fair-minded and humane, Walker roamed the West for 50 years, often living with Indians because, he said, "white people are too damned mean." Although the frontier echoed with violence, Walker favored adventure over fighting. Nearing his 50th birthday, he rode 800 miles from Santa Fe to Fort Leavenworth in an astonishing 23 days. The amateur naturalist was even interested in prairie dogs. On all fours he tried to capture one alive to obtain a study skin. A happy combination of luck, skill and attitude helped Walker to prevail over the wilderness; he died a proud and prosperous rancher...