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...educational journals for two deanships, one in arts and sciences, the other in the law school. Hundreds of responses poured in, but not a single one, Berendzen noted, was from a black applicant. At about the same time, Patricia Snyder, 42, faced the bleak prospect of having to abandon her graduate studies in anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) because she could not meet her annual tuition and off-campus living expenses of $16,000. If she had left, the department's black graduate- student body would have been reduced by one-third. Indeed, only...
Parroting a moderated version of Reagan rhetoric turns on the hope that a new decade will soon be here and that political moods always change with new decades. This wishing simply will not wash. The Democratic Party cannot afford to abandon the things it has long stood for: economic security, minority rights, education, arms control, and preserving the environment. What Democratic leaders have forgotten how to do is to frame those issues as majority issues, rather than in terms of serving special-interest groups...
...began filing into the cavernous Parc des Expositions on an island in the Garonne River, the battle lines on how best to resolve the party's problems had been drawn. On one side was a loyalist camp, known as the Mitterrandistes, whose advocates argue that the Socialists must not abandon their original constituency on the left. The loyalists are opposed to a coalition with centrist groups, even if the Socialists take a drubbing in next year's elections and want to leave the door open for a revival of the old alliance with the Communists. "I do not erase...
...Office, which was set up by the Reagan Administration to distribute the funds, had dispensed $400,000 in aid. But rebel leaders are complaining that supplies, such as food, clothing and medicine, are still not reaching their troops. As a result, they claim, some guerrilla units have had to abandon their hit-and-run war against the Sandinistas...
...considers most threatening, warheads deployed atop land-based strategic missiles. There was some bad news too: the Soviet method of counting weapons so distorts strategic realities that it is simply unacceptable to the U.S. Equally an anathema to the Reagan Administration is the continued Soviet insistence that the U.S. abandon its Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as Star Wars...