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...particularly like Communism, the opposite extreme can be as bad. My brother, who was working with the Indian people in Guatemala, was murdered last October after being kidnaped in broad daylight by persons who, there is good reason to believe, are members of the Guatemala security forces. I applaud Ambassador White's efforts in El Salvador...
...past semester, the lecture series has been well-attended and generally well-received, yet its ministry as an organization probably has more impact on its core of members than on the general student body. Members applaud the fact that the group helps them-on an individual basis-grow spiritually. "Most people believe they should assume one posture for their intellectual lives and another at church," Ray A. Hammond '71, a tutor at Currier House, says. "Personally, I came to the point where I wasn't satisfied in leading that dual life." He adds that the integration of the two postures...
...depend, in large part, on their political leadership. As head of the largest economy and the most powerful country in the West, the U.S. President will play the central role. TIME'S economists view the election of Ronald Reagan with both hope and a degree of skepticism. They applaud his announced energy policy, which includes the decontrol of U.S. crude oil and natural gas prices as quickly as possible. This should spur new energy production and encourage even greater conservation efforts...
...machine repair shop and helped found the underground Baltic Free Trade Unions Movement. He was sent as a delegate to the official union elections in 1979, but was outraged to find the local party secretary controlling the vote. "Why have I come here, to elect or to applaud?" he demanded. The answer: an unceremonious sacking...
...bureaucracy listened to Gaye Williams, president of the Radcliffe Lesbians Association, insist that "we're not trying to recruit students, we're trying to educate them." Then they listened to the 50 students who had come to the meeting applaud what Williams said. Then they listened to a somber Dean Rosovsky say that "it's not in the tradition of this committee to have applause or demonstrations of this kind...