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...does not mean the commission has yet been able to create the consensus necessary to push its ambitious program through Congress, let alone remove Central American policy as an issue in this year's presidential campaign. The findings, in classic presidential-commission style, included something for everybody to applaud, but they also contained something for everybody to denounce. A number of liberal Democrats attacked the panel's stress on military aid and its refusal to countenance any form of power sharing between the right-wing government and leftist guerrillas in El Salvador. Said Maryland Congressman Michael Barnes...
...member of the Harvard community by rescheduling the Commencement date. Although this may change some people's plans, precedent set by such an action would more than justify any inconvenience. We are confident that when informed of the reasons behind the rescheduling, most people will concur with and applaud the University...
When the latest affirmative action results came out; there was a strange complacency in the University. Although the report showed Harvard very seriously behind in its affirmative action efforts, there was little University comment until the Association of Black Faculty and Administrators began to take notice. We applaud the Association's efforts and hope that they will encourage the University to revamp its affirmative action policy and check a dangerous decline in its once hopeful affirmative action efforts...
THERE ISN'T muct sense in deriding President Reagan just to score political points. Given half a chance, or one positive White House policy initiative, most liberals would happily applaud the president. But over the past two and one half years, no such initiative has appeared. And this week, just when it seemed that opportunity for bipartisan approval of the Administration had finally developed, Reagan botched it and invited another dose of rightful scorn from liberal quarters...
Votes on the first ballot were still being counted when the 211 electors who had gathered at Jesuit headquarters in Rome began to applaud. By an overwhelming margin, the general congregation of the Society of Jesus last week chose its new superior general: the Rev. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, 54, a Dutch priest highly respected within the church's largest religious order of men (26,000 members) for his piety, scholarship and skills as a prudent diplomat...