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...accord departmental rank to women's studies, therefore, is inherently a challenge to the University's power centers. It does more than legitimate the fact that studying women is an important and worthwhile scholarly purpose; it would imply that the scholars--most of them women--who have done so much to challenge traditional academic assumptions should actually be allowed control over their own, new field of research...
...plainly frustrated. In a fit of complaisance early last year, the White House and Democrats agreed to set aside differences on policy toward Nicaragua, collaborated on a plan to bail out the savings and loan industry and settled on the outlines of the federal budget. But the budget accord unraveled, largely over Bush's insistence on a capital-gains tax cut that would mainly benefit taxpayers earning $200,000 or more a year. Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell blocked that measure, promising that he would make no more budget deals with the White House and observing sourly that "for them...
...when France and Australia, two countries with a major presence in Antarctica, suddenly announced that they backed the world-park idea and would not sign the Wellington Convention. In Washington, Senator Albert Gore of Tennessee is leading a drive to get the U.S. to withdraw its support of the accord. Until the debate is resolved, there will be no agreed-upon strategy for protecting Antarctica from mineral exploration...
...effect before that happened. The result was the Wellington Convention, agreed to by representatives of 20 treaty nations in New Zealand's capital in June 1988. The document essentially forbids any mineral exploration or development without agreement by all treaty participants. But most environmentalists are disturbed by any accord that recognizes even the possibility of oil drilling. Naturalist Jacques-Yves Cousteau has called the Wellington Convention "nothing more than a holdup on a planetary scale...
...will have to weigh his choices and come up with that which is the least disagreeable," McGrath said in an interview. Vatican officials have said they were urging Noriega to leave of his own accord...