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...Palacio d'Oriente, historically the residence of Spanish monarchs, stretches ominously across a high bluff overlooking Madrid. A museum currently occupies its 2800 rooms, with the main hall used for an occasional state dinner. But King Juan Carlos prefers to live in a compact 20-room estate on the outskirts of the capital...
Mudd Library features taller stacks with narrower aisles, a big space saver, and Yale has also installed compact shelving in its Divinity School library. But Mudd can only take another 500,000 books, which isn't enough to solve the space problem in the rest of its various buildings...
...minority hiring record in Boston is abysmal for a number of reasons, all of which contribute to a feeling among Blacks that they are not wanted in the city. Although goo-goos have pushed through programs like the Boston Compact, which provide jobs to untrained high school graduates--many of them minorities the affirmative action record within Boston's institutions is disastrous...
...articles ignore the remarkable program made by the Marshallese toward self-government, progress which notably fulfills the US obligation under the trusteeship. The Marshallese have written a constitution and last fall carried out their secound national election. They are almost entirely self-governing. Their government negotiated and signed a compact of free association with the United States, which was opposed by 57 percent of the Marshallese voters in a UN-observed plebiscite last summer. This compact makes extensive provisions for nuclear damages, reserving $150 million for this purpose. The compact has been sent by President Reagan to Congress for enactment...
...have only been promised and provided that we give America our lands for military purposes as listed in the so-called. Free Association Compact. We have been promised and only if we forbid other nations from doing what the United States wants to do with our islands--that is dominate us militarily...