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...sheer busyness of the place. Over a long weekend, Roberta Flack sings, the U.S. Army Field Band plays The Battle Hymn of the Republic, Presidential Aide Edwin Meese and General William Westmoreland defend embattled political positions, young musicians keep dates with Tchaikovsky under the stars. The resort's daily newspaper warns culture vultures to prepare for Victor Borge, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, discussions of abortion and contraception, and an address by the president of the National Council of Churches. It is not a great surprise to learn that a new course has just been added to the Chautauqua curriculum...
Alone, it's not an entirely satisfying explanation. You still wonder why it always seems to be Dershowitz who had to take it upon himself to keep the government honest by freeing criminals. He has, after all, challenged the government as a lawyer of last resort in many controversial cases--ranging from defending porn star Hary Reems to representing nursing home mogul Bernard Bergman to backing CIA agent-turned-whistleblower Frank Snepp to aiding the JDL conspirator. In some cases, his clever defenses advanced civil liberties; in others, they freed people who should be behind bars...
...people of Viet Nam, the Haitians risked their lives to flee starvation and poverty in "Baby Doc" Duvalier's dictatorial regime, making the 700-mile journey in rickety, overcrowded vessels. Many drowned when their boats broke up at sea, and their bodies sometimes washed up on the plush resort beaches of South Florida. Haitians who made it alive to the U.S., but were unlucky enough to be caught as they landed, were immediately locked up. The only way out was to return to Haiti; most preferred to stay...
...conditions were far from ideal for making a foreign policy decision so fraught with risk. Alexander Haig, who had tried and failed to take charge of Administration policy, was vacationing at a mountain resort in West Virginia after his removal as Secretary of State. His designated successor, George Shultz, was in San Francisco, packing for his move to Washington and awaiting his Senate confirmation hearings this week. President Reagan was on an extended Fourth of July holiday at his five-room adobe ranch house in California's Santa Ynez Mountains. With most of his top aides scattered, the President...
...steady deterioration of the Western economies has put ever greater pressure on political leaders to find a way to revive growth and reduce unemployment. If they resort to the traditional remedies of increasing government spending or their money supplies, they run the risk of fueling inflation and ultimately hindering growth. Wrote Rimmer de Vries, chief international economist for New York City's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., in his respected newsletter, World Financial Markets: "It is widely appreciated today that any tradeoff between inflation and unemployment applies only to the short run, and that in order to achieve long...