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...Africa issue: the Corporation, which runs Harvard's investment portfolio supports the Sullivan Principles for American companies providing guidelines for equality in the workplace in South Africa. Now, the Corporation has set upa $1 million fund to help Black South Africans and members of the Harvard community in their attempt to fight apartheid...
...another attempt to respond to community fears over the abundance of liquor-serving restaurants in the city, a Cambridge commission may revoke the licenses of two local bars which have been the subject of many recent complaints...
...week's end, seven officers, 80 soldiers and five labor leaders were in custody. A state of emergency, declared when the coup attempt began, had yet to be lifted, and there were signs that Prem might shake up his Cabinet to give his government a needed boost of confidence. "This is and will be known as a tempest in a teapot," editorialized the Nation Review, an English- language daily in Bangkok. "But how other countries will view it is difficult...
...Democrats tried three times to bring their own bill to a vote. Just before the second and climactic attempt, Dole reclaimed a few G.O.P. waverers with a dramatic pledge. "If there is any slippage, if there is any turning back on the part of the President," Dole said, then he would personally reintroduce the bill and support it. The call to bring the sanctions to a vote was defeated 57 to 41. But Cranston vowed to try to attach the measure to legislation that Reagan could not easily veto, like an upcoming bill that would raise the federal debt ceiling...
Reagan's trade initiative was an attempt to stave off an avalanche of more than 200 protectionist bills pending on Capitol Hill. The President, a longtime advocate of free trade, had first signaled a shift in his radio message on Sept. 7. He threatened retaliatory measures against four U.S. trading partners that discriminate against some American products, including tobacco goods in Japan and canned fruit in the European Community. It was the first time Reagan had issued such warnings without being asked to do so by a U.S. industry. The President stressed that there was still time to resolve...