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...hands of a 25-member Council of State headed by President Aparicio Méndez and composed of relatively faceless civilian technocrats; a 28-member junta of generals-top army, navy and air force officers-will exercise the real power behind the council. Meanwhile, the military must start anew to shape a constitution more acceptable to Uruguayans...
...birds. But there were few elaborate dress-up parties and no bulging racks of greeting cards; the occasional pasteboard turkeys that appeared in stores got lost amid the Christmas lights that began winking as soon as the Halloween decorations came down. Its very lack of glitter, as Americans discovered anew last week, makes Thanksgiving the essence of what a holiday was originally supposed to be: a day primarily for family, for reunion, even for the offering of thanks...
...incidents have spurred students and faculty members to look anew at long-simmering problems between the races, both on campus and off. Acknowledges Susan Hobbs, a white Williams senior: "There has been apprehension about relations between minorities and whites." Another white Williams student wonders why "each group seems to stick together, without reaching out to each other." Says Darrell McWhorter, a black senior who is president of the Williams student council: "There is really nothing different here from the world outside. These incidents have just shown that Williams does not exist in a vacuum." Says Harvard's Jackson: "Until...
...future destination (it now appears to be Cambridge), Harvard football enjoyed a significant rejuvenation this year. The rebuilding years (how many more can there be?) will conclude only with a championship. After so many dreams deferred, the title came tantalizingly close this year. The chorus has already begun anew...next year, next year...and it ends September 19, 1981 at Baker Field in New York City...
...pledge to NATO to increase defense spending by 3%. Schmidt had apparently decided on a 1.75% increase. In light of the bleak economic conditions facing Western Europe, he reasoned that the 3% commitment, which he had vigorously favored at a 1978 European summit, "needs to be looked at anew." With only 5.3% inflation and 3.8% unemployment, West Germany is better off than many of its neighbors, but Schmidt warned in a television interview, "We are not the hen that laid the golden...