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...nonbinding.) While such a requirement would have a positive effect by increasing the exposure of poorly financed campaigns, it would come at the cost of increased governmental control of the media. The answer to making the election system more equitable is to publically finance campaigns, not to use strong arm tactics on the independent press. We endorse a NO vote on Question...
Well, not all the fun. As far as we can determine, the Inter-Club council did not halt the male-bonding activities that many members insist are the real reason they join final clubs. No doubt, arm wrestling, watching Super Bowl re-runs and telling lewd jokes will continue late into the night. So too will rap sessions in which members fine tune their resumes before mailing them to their friends' fathers and fathers' friends...
...retaliated with stones. The police then charged onto the Temple Mount, went berserk and gunned down Palestinians at close range. (Arab doctors later announced that one victim was shot 14 times). "They were shooting people from ten meters away," said Ala Abu Bakr, 17, who was shot in the arm and the back. Abu Bakr crawled into al-Aqsa mosque, where he and other Palestinians lay for nearly two hours before being rescued...
...tape recorder and then printing a list of the students who attended. Two years ago, in what can now be seen as a foreshadowing of their Yom Kippur issue, the Review printed a caricature of Dartmouth's President James O. Freedman as Hitler, complete with mustache and stiff-arm salute...
Arafat also faces internal threats. By tilting toward Baghdad, he has bolstered radicals within his organization who would like to depose him. Should Saddam emerge from the gulf crisis stronger, he might challenge Arafat's position. Some tensions surfaced shortly after Iraq invaded Kuwait, when Saddam wanted to arm Palestinians there, but Arafat instructed them to decline. For Arafat, the task, as always, is to ride the tiger without being devoured...