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This is fun; let's play again. The United States spends millions funding terrorist activities in Nicaragua (though only about half as much as it spends funding anti-terrorist activities everywhere, which means we're good guys after all) in an attempt to counter what we believe is a serious threat to Democracy and self-determination. Nicaragua is not as bad as either South Africa or the Soviet Union. Thus, we should finance terrorist activity or possibly wage all-out covert war against both countries...
...wrote a letter to The Crimson decrying the "injustice" of the Ad Board's decision, calling the Anderson reprimand "the University's latest attempt to stifle campus activism." He was enraged by what he called "the chilling of rightful and desirable student dissent...
...sure, a ripple of anti-American feeling did surface in Italy, but it has remained limited to an attempt by some 200 protesters to organize an anti- U.S. demonstration at Sigonella. Italian officials dismiss such protests. Said one defense official: "It's like a quarrel between husband and wife. Our ties are too deep, too historic to have been damaged by one incident." For all the appearance of Italian instability, some things never change. As the governing crisis proved once more, no postwar Italian government has ever fallen because of differences over foreign policy...
...commitment on both sides to reductions and to a process of dialogue with regard to defensive systems that would truly be a watershed." In order to continue such a dialogue, Shultz will try to set up another summit for next year while he is in Moscow this week. His attempt may fail, because Moscow has stressed that there must first be some specific progress at the summit, before an ongoing process can be instituted...
...Means Committee, was trying to stage a dramatic rally of his own. Only a few days before, his goal of presiding over a thorough reform of the U.S. income tax code had seemed virtually dead. But Rostenkowski called extraordinary Saturday and Sunday sessions of his committee in an attempt to breathe new life into the tax-reform effort. Though the meetings broke up at dinnertime, giving the baseball fans in the group a chance to watch the World Series, the lawmakers made enough progress over the weekend for Rostenkowski to proclaim that a tax bill would emerge from Ways...