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That reluctance has begun to fade. Last fall, in connection with the Amnesty case, a West German judge asked the Chilean courts to arrange an inspection tour of the colony. Last week the managing director of Amnesty International's West German section announced in Parral that inspections of the surrounding terrain have so far supported testimony by former DINA prisoners who claim they were taken to Colonia Dignidad to be tortured. During the next two days a group that included a Chilean judge, Amnesty Attorney Maximo Pacheco, colony lawyers and representatives of the West German government was allowed inside...
Again, we applaud the efforts of the administration so far, but we also point out that the work has just begun. Wendell C. Ocasio '90 Minority Students Alliance
...simply trying to explain astrology rather than criticizing it, however, the media has begun to unwittingly spread the President's foolishness rather than combat it. This frightens me far more than the revelation itself, for it is as if noone cares that the leader of the country believed this ridiculous stuff. Nobody asks what this says about the kinds of criteria Reagan is willing to use in his everyday--or even world shaking--decisions. If we begin by accepting astrology as an innocuous eccentricity, we will be more likely to accept a government run on ignorance, and give "equal time...
Aides expressed confidence he would command a nominating majority by the time the primary season ends on June 7 with elections in California, New Jersey and two other states, and Dukakis has begun campaigning with one eye on Jackson and the other on the fall campaign against Bush...
Smaller businesses and even homeowners have begun striking back at their bankers. Joseph Ricci, a Falmouth, Me., racetrack operator, last year won a $10 million judgment against Maine's Key Bank, as well as a $5 million loan. Ricci established that the bank's officers had wrongfully terminated his $1 million credit line because they believed an erroneous rumor that he was associated with organized crime. Meanwhile, savings and loan customers are suing thrifts for such transgressions as mortgage-processing delays...