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...recent irritation in Peruvian-Chilean relations has been the two countries' inability to agree on a formula for giving the Bolivians the access to the sea they lost when, as an ally of Peru, they were also defeated in the War of the Pacific. Chile recently offered to cede a strip along its border with Peru to Bolivia as a corridor to the sea. But Peru objected and invoked its right, obtained under a 1929 treaty, to veto any further change in status of territory that had once belonged to it. One reason for its objection is that Peru...
...these leaders have now unearthed 400 treaties on which they say the government has reneged. Together these agreements encompass 135 million acres which the leaders say should be in Indian hands. In the next decade, Americans will square with an unavoidable decision: whether to cede an appendage of the country and return it to those who cared for it long ago. For restoring this land to the Indian could do more than simply assuage the liberal guilt that many Americans feel towards Indians. It may return to the Indians what they justly--and perhaps legally--deserve...
Assuming Rhodesia's Prime Minister Ian Smith makes good on his promise to cede power to his country's black majority, a number of Africans will be in line for the leadership. The four main contenders...
Harvard's dishonest waiver policy compounds the offense. The Admissions Office routinely sends applicants a form permitting them to cede the right to view their admissions file once they reach Harvard. Despite the implicit pressure on them, only half the applicants waive their rights. Yet all students are then denied access to their admission files...
...against the scoured stones like the wooden clapper in a bell, warning that they were slippery." The Auctioneer becomes less a tale of suspense than a parable of politics. The open questions it poses are as old as society itself: What is the nature of power? What makes people cede control over their own destinies to the glib, the avaricious, the contemptuous...