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Only 20% of registered voters participated last week in elections for the Indian chamber of South Africa's new tricameral Parliament. That unenthusiastic showing came a week after a tepid 30% turnout in balloting for the colored (mixed-race) chamber. The two new houses, which will augment South Africa's previously whites-only Parliament, were set up under a new constitution overwhelmingly approved by white voters last fall. The additional chambers will have authority to pass legislation affecting the nation's 850,000 Indians and 2.8 million coloreds. But real power will remain with the 4.7 million...
...supplied to the Saudis) to defend itself against potential Iranian air attacks on its refineries, power stations and desalination plants. Though the Reagan Administration denied the request because of anticipated congressional opposition, the U.S. is offering instead to increase Kuwait's supply of American-made Hawk missiles and augment its skimpy radar facilities. For the past two weeks, a 20-man team from the Pentagon has been in Kuwait discussing the country's security needs. "We assume Kuwait is No. 1 on the escalation scenario," says a senior U.S. diplomat. In other words, Kuwait would be the first...
Some of the groups are created expressly to augment the normal course curriculum. "After my sophomore year," says Adriane P. Concus '84, "I felt as if I was the only one doing Applied Math. There were no role models and no camaraderie...
...main plot, about the search for a sacred stone stolen by a coven of Indian thugs and used to augment sadistic black-magic rituals in the bowels of the temple of doom, need not concern us here. Suffice it to say that the new film is more an embellishment than an improvement on the snazzy Raiders. If you enjoyed seeing skeletons rise on spikes, or Indy snap his trusty bullwhip around a steel-willed woman, or the two of them trapped in a cave with uggy crawling things, you should be amused to see them again. Again you will savor...
...sure, "the sanctity of the English sentence," is something few students discover, but a good literary education leads to other discoverers, wider in scope, among them the discovery that the works of great writers nourish the imagination and augment the wisdom of experience. Andy took courses under professors capable of giving such a literary education but none seems to have succeeded with...