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...Portillo will surely caution Washington not to shape its entire Latin American policy as a test of wills between the U.S. and Cuba. But the Administration's policy there, as elsewhere, already seems to be firmly set. Enders summed up the Administration's view: "Cuba has declared covert war on its neighbors-our neighbors...
...reason for the current caution is the difficulties researchers are encountering in perfecting the use of interferon as a possible cure for cancer. After well over a year of testing on human patients, "interferon hasn't yet done anything better than any other anticancer drug," says Frank Rauscher, senior vice president for research of the American Cancer Society...
...after his Penske-Cosworth received the checkered flag. The next morning, race stewards stripped Unser of his third Indianapolis title and gave it to Mario Andretti, who had finished second. Unser passed eight or nine cars, violating a rule that bans drivers from improving their positions while a yellow caution flag is in effect. Unser was penalized one lap, moving Andretti up from second money ($168,674) to first ($262,424). Unser appealed the decision. He admitted he had passed the cars but called that infraction "common practice." Andretti viewed his second Indy victory ruefully: "Now I'll have...
...these larger numbers of women gain the experience and publishing records the University expects of its tenured faculty, administrators say, more and more women will recieve tenure. Still, administrators like Nancy Randolph, special assistant to the president for affirmative action, caution that the process of assimilating women into tenured spots will be protracted and gradual. "You're not going to get a significant percentage change for many, many, many years," especially with the slow pace at which tenure spots are vacated, Randolph says. John D. Montgomery, chairman of the Government Department, also notes that many women with Ph.D...
Although Bok's statements, presented in the open letter, represent only personal opinion and not official University doctrine, his remarks reflect to some degree the status of affirmative action at Harvard. Composed with care and tinged with caution. Bok's statements cover no new ground and, in fact, seem almost designed to avoid open confrontation with critics on either side of the affirmative action issue. Perhaps even more important, the opinion presented in his open letter--devoid of the enthusiasm of his earlier statements--has been conditioned by eight years during which the University has repeatedly fallen far short...