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Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT IS TO BE DONE? | 6/26/1986 | See Source »

...office has reviewed what happened and underthe applicable statutes of the commonwealth andthe rules of the governing bodies of theUniversity we think the election process isappropriate and consistent with legalrequirements," Steiner said...

Author: By Jonathan M. Moses, | Title: Alumni Complaint With State Calls Overseer Election Illegal | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Despite the widespread unrest, the Botha government's motive in staging last week's attacks was unclear. Even as the raiding parties were carrying out their missions, a Commonwealth negotiating team arrived in Cape Town following talks with A.N.C. leaders in Lusaka. They were trying to set up a negotiating link between Pretoria and the A.N.C. Though the Commonwealth team's leaders, onetime Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and former Nigerian Head of State Olusegun Obasanjo, were reluctant to admit it, their mission had been all but destroyed by the cross-border raids. Criticism was worldwide. The Reagan Administration expressed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa the Commando Offensive | 6/2/1986 | See Source »

Massachusetts has always been ahead of its time. The Pilgrims of Plymouth engendered an idea and a commonwealth. The Minutemen of Lexington and Concord triggered a revolution and a republic. High-minded, contrary and steadfastly liberal, Massachusetts either led the parade or refused to march. It is the cradle not only of liberty but of imagination: John Harvard conceived of a college; Emerson and Thoreau inspired the intellectual flowering of New England; William Lloyd Garrison sparked the abolitionist movement that split a country. The state's hybrid heritage--Puritan and Pilgrim, fisherman and farmer, Yankee and immigrant--combined to form...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Tale of Two States | 5/26/1986 | See Source »

Many lenders are finding it difficult to manage the sudden growth of their business. At San Diego's Home Federal Savings & Loan, mortgage applications are running at nearly five times the normal volume. Boston-based Commonwealth Mortgage is processing $40 million a week in mortgages, more than four times last year's level. Many banks that usually process a loan application in three weeks now require up to two months. Another problem: a shortage of real estate appraisers, who are needed to approve loans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hammering All Over the Land | 5/12/1986 | See Source »

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