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...also said he favored the ACSR's present structure, and did not, on the whole, intend to adopt the council's recommendation of requiring elections to make the members accountable to the contituencies from which they are chosen...
...adopt a policy of fighting morally repugnant nations, then the Soviet Union should be at the top of your list," said Baird Professor of History Richard Pipes, a specialist in Russian history who has written numerous recent articles on the need to divest...
Swaim, who is one of three Coalition '85 candidates, says she would like the city to adopt "a carefully designed, strictly controlled growth plan" and resolve the hybrid condominium problem...
...copies of Iglesia, a new Catholic newsletter. Then just hours before the speech, government agents closed the magazine's office and seized its printing equipment. Apparently the publication offended the Sandinistas because it carried a letter from Cardinal Obando y Bravo defending the right of seminary students to adopt conscientious objector status. In September the Sandinista army drafted eleven seminarians despite a tacit understanding that men in training for the priesthood could be exempted from the draft...
Until last week the Reagan Administration's attitude toward the debt crisis was that foreign countries should solve their problems by adopting austerity measures and paying off their staggering loans. As a result, such countries as Mexico, Brazil and Argentina were required to adopt tough economic policies that ran the risk of setting off severe social unrest. The new U.S. approach recognizes that borrowers will remain at the brink of collapse unless they can rev up their economic growth. Said IMF Managing Director Jacques de Larosiere: "The debtor countries must grow out of debt." To do so, they will need...