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...quiet that a cough can be heard from 400 yds., and the land is so barren that a single twisted piece of brush becomes a landmark known as the Tree. "It's easy to get lost out here. There are no terrain features," says Captain Scott Barrington, 29, of Chester, Va. "It's like the K mart parking...
Much in the style of Liberia's late President Samuel Doe, Siad Barre, a onetime policeman who seized power in a military coup in 1969, sealed his own fate by depending more and more on his kinsmen and overreacting to any challenge to his autocratic rule. Former U.S. diplomat Chester Crocker, a professor at Georgetown University, calls Siad Barre an "old-style, feudal, tribal chieftain." The country is ethnically homogeneous -- 98.8% are Somalis -- so there are no significant tribal hatreds. But its 8 million people are split into rival clans that have been battling one another for centuries...
...unceremonious dumping fuels suspicion that the White House is worried that voters will punish the President in 1992 unless he delivers on his promises. "This is a new start to Bush's efforts to become the education President," says Chester Finn Jr., a Reagan-era Assistant Secretary of Education. "The department is waiting for real leadership...
...department's rationale for the ban is Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which forbids racial or ethnic discrimination by organizations receiving federal funds. "You can't have a whites-only scholarship," says Chester Finn Jr., a Reagan-era education official. "Why should there be scholarships exclusively for minorities...
...following people make up the executive board of the Harvard and Radcliffe Alumni/ae Against Apartheid: Judith K. Baker '70; Eric B. Gumbi; Jan L. Handke; Chester Hartman '57; Joel Krieger; Irving P. McPhail; Donald M. Solomon; Jonathan Walters '71; Robert Paul Wolff '53; and Lena S. Zezulin...