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Wappingers Falls is so ordinary that it could serve as a set for the old television show Twilight Zone. Eighty miles up the Hudson River from New York City, the Dutchess County town has an unassuming 1950s air. A highway strip of car dealerships and fast-food joints leads into a village centered on a grassy park with a bandstand. A sign on Main Street announces Saturday-night bingo at St. Mary's Church. The biggest employer is IBM. The second biggest is New York State, which maintains a scattering of prisons and hospitals in the area...
That Reagan's deployment of American troops in Central America undercuts the Arias peace plan is no suprise, that the Administration is willing to risk more American lives in pursuit of a vaguely defined foreign policy is even less of one. This attempted show of strength in Reagan's twilight hour is sadly indicative of his failed policy in the region. The timing of the deployment with the indictments of Lt. Col. Oliver North and former National Security Adviser John Poindexter may have succeeded in topping these criminal acts in the newspages--but it cannot be allowed to divert attention...
...larger sense, the post-Super Tuesday race for the nomination reflects the national state of mind in the twilight of the Reagan years. Despite some of his recent blunders, the President is still regarded with a powerful affection that has bred a certain reluctance to say goodbye to a gauzy era of good feeling. Bush benefits from this kind of contemporary nostalgia. His dogged loyalty to the President enables him to inherit some of Reagan's popularity...
Julie Sasner: Saz. The word evokes many images. Hustle. A great slapshot. Sacrifice. Two-way play. The senior's stellar collegiate hockey career is in its twilight, and she is hoping to go out with a bang. Sasner is the one person you would want with the puck at the blue line down by one with under 10 seconds left in regulation...
...twilight of his presidency, Reagan has reason to fear that one of his most cherished foreign initiatives is slipping away. The House's 219-to-211 vote against granting an additional $36 million in aid to the contras does not mean the immediate end for the rebels. But with military supplies dwindling fast, the contras cannot hold out much longer. Says General Fred Woerner, commander in chief of the U.S. Southern Command in Panama: "We're talking in terms of a few months...