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Williams College students took over the office of the Dean of the College on April 22 to demand increased minority hiring. A group of minority students at the University of Vermont won an accord with the administration that calls for adding four to 11 new minority faculty members a year for the next four years and for doubling the number of minority students within that time. Students at Penn State took over a campus building and demanded that the university comply with a court injunction to increase the number of Black students to 5 percent, but they were refuted...
...close to the center of the brutal six-year war as any other town in the country. Pantasma's 4,000 inhabitants should be happy: after signing a 60-day cease-fire last month, Sandinista and contra leaders met in Managua last week to negotiate details of the final accord. The talks bogged down on both technical and substantive issues, but the two sides predicted that progress would be made when they meet again this week. Nonetheless, Pantasma seems more weighed down by its bloody past than it is buoyed by any belief that the battles may finally be over...
...General Javier Perez de Cuellar declared the occasion a "major stride in the effort to bring peace to Afghanistan," but his audience looked less than convinced. As diplomats from Pakistan, Afghanistan, the U.S. and the Soviet Union gathered in Geneva's Palais des Nations last week to sign an accord that secured the withdrawal of the 115,000 Soviet troops from Afghanistan beginning May 15, serious questions remained about a pact that had been under negotiation for the past six years...
Though the Geneva accord will fall short of bringing immediate peace to Afghanistan, the signing was a remarkable turning point in the struggle. Much as the U.S. did in South Viet Nam, Moscow has decided to retire from a conflict it cannot win. An estimated 30,000 Soviet troops have died in the eight-year conflict (compared with nearly 50,000 U.S. troops in Viet Nam). The mujahedin denounced the accord last week, largely because they were not invited to participate, but they are nonetheless gleeful over the Soviet retreat. Said Nabi Mohammadi, the leader of Harakat...
...taking of Flight 422 raises tensions and tempers throughout the Middle East. -- Abu Jihad, Yasser Arafat' s second in command, is murdered in Tunis. -- An interview with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir. -- Four nations sign an accord securing the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan, but peace remains an elusive prospect...