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...Undergraduate Council wants to lose its last shreds of student respect, it should go right ahead and abandon all efforts to change University policy on serious issues...
...Washington. Nor does the U.S. Navy publicly profess any interest in the sub, noting that it was an older model and that the Soviets had ample time to strip it of encrypting devices. Under international law, the Navy says, the wreck belongs to the Soviets unless they expressly abandon it. Then again, the Navy is not likely to say otherwise, even if another salvage operation is in the offing...
...release its first annual review assessing the measures' effectiveness. In view of the Administration's past record, few expect the report to call for making current U.S. punitive actions any tougher, even if it deems the current sanctions completely unsuccessful. But there is little sentiment in Congress to abandon after only one year a program that passed amid bitter debate and provided at least the appearance that the U.S. was doing something about apartheid...
...chief space diplomat. He spent more than two weeks in August flying from the U.S.S.R. to Hawaii, New York and Washington to recruit scientists for Soviet missions and to publicize Moscow's space program. His dizzying schedule of speeches, meetings and interviews has forced him to all but abandon his dacha outside Moscow and even his burning passion, chess. In recognition of his achievements at the Soviet Space Institute (IKI), he was chosen to head the Soviets' new Supercomputing Institute and was appointed as Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's special adviser on the U.S. Star Wars program...
...with extracurricular activities and classes that I missed out on some of youth's simple pleasures--lawbreaking and endangering life and limb. I feared lighters, loaded guns, and Confederate flags, all best sellers at Southern fireworks outlets. When I got to college I couldn't even afford the reckless abandon of the rich kid--who discovers his parent's credit ceiling and breaks it buying drugs...