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...Vlasova had needed pressuring to return to the U.S.S.R., there was ample time to persuade her. When she arrived in Moscow, Vlasova was quoted as denouncing the U.S. for trying to compel her to stay, and was hailed hi the Soviet press as a heroine "who took a position of dignity and lofty civic duty" in the face of the "bourgeois brigands" of the U.S. If nothing else, the manner of her exit has probably saved her from what otherwise would have been her fate: the stigma of being the wife of a "traitor" with consequent loss of status...
...constitutional by back-home politicians and environmentalists, and several of the countless legal battles might drag up slowly to the U.S. Supreme Court. Administration aides hope that the high court would reject the assault. But there is another problem: many of the quick decisions that the board could compel from state and local authorities would be "no." The board would have no power to amend local clean-air and other environmental laws...
...Catholicism itself continues to change. Once it used its own secular power in order to frustrate the religious freedom of others. But the bishops of the Second Vatican Council formally incorporated freedom of conscience in modern society into their creed. The Catholic Church now flatly opposes all attempts to compel conformity to religious belief...
Initial department reaction to Bowersock's plan indicates that persuasion has once again failed to compel departments to rejuvenate substantially Faculty involvement in tutorial instruction. In History--the department with the longest record of tutorial legislation violations--department members discussed tutorials at their last meeting this May. They agreed that Patrice L.R. Higonnet, head tutor in History, should "ask" History professors to "involve" themselves at some level in tutorials, perhaps nothing more than reviewing a teaching fellow's tutorial reading list and "occasionally" sitting in on his tutorials if the tutor has no objections, Higonnet says. "Nobody," Higonnet stressed, "will...
...March 1978. In that operation, which verged on prolonged occupation, more than 2,000 people were killed and 265,000 made homeless. What were the Israelis trying to prove this time? Evidently they were prepared to risk everything, perhaps even the peace treaty with Egypt, in an effort to compel the Palestinians to end their terrorist raids on Israel. Recent assaults have been particularly vicious; in fact, the rejectionist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine described last week's attempted attack on the kibbutz as a "suicide mission." As a result, the Israelis have apparently adopted a policy...