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...Catholic Church's unwillingness to allow open discussion of homosexuality was furthered recently when it launched a successful campaign to pressure the producers of WBZ-TV Channel 4's "People Are Talking" program to cancel a scheduled segment dealing with the topic of lesbian nuns. In addition, the Cardinal has promoted anti-gay bigotry by publicly supporting the recently enacted Massachusetts Department of Social Service's blatantly discriminatory foster care policy which excludes lesbians, gays, single people and women who work outside the home from qualifying for foster placements...
...country, created an exodus of foreign workers, and overwhelmed the Islamic court system with bankruptcy proceedings. Only interest-free government deposits have kept many banks from failing. Says a top Saudi official: "During the boom, the country generated tremendous wealth. Now the cycle is reversed. Every time we cancel a project, the ripple effect washes over the entire economy...
...claiming that Blacks in that country wanted Harvard interns. But in the face of subsequent denunciations of the program by Bishop Desmond M. Tutu and other South African leaders and vocal oppostion from several faculty members as well as students, the committee charged with administering the internships voted to cancel the program. In the context of Harvard bureaucracy at least, they moved with an alacrity that deserves commendation...
...going to move exams back and shrink reading period, better cancel all extracurricular activities. Nobody will have the time if they have to do schoolwork. Better cancel the field hockey team. Better close down PBH. And definitely stop publishing this newspaper...
...Europeans, since Britain and France would now be able to keep their nuclear missiles even as the Soviets remove all their SS-20s from Europe. The U.S., on the other hand, would have to withdraw all its missiles from Europe, and the British and French would be forced to cancel plans to upgrade theirs. Then last month Gorbachev told Kennedy that contrary to earlier warnings, "there are no preconditions" to an INF agreement. The Soviet leader indicated that he and Reagan could sign an interim arms-control agreement at their expected summit later this year, regardless of a continuing impasse...