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...opposition party candidates were quick to criticize the PRI for rigging even such unfavorable electoral returns. Reports of ballot stuffing and payment for PRI votes led Cardenas to conduct an independent electoral survey which indicated the leftist nominee had actually led Mexico City, which contains one-fourth of the Mexican population, and three other states. But the PRI claims that the independent count is just a publicity move and has still not made a statement as to whether or not these figures are true...
...Committee to Review Affirmative Action will not hold additional meetings this summer, but each of the nine members will conduct research into Harvard's--and other comparable research universities'--past performances in hiring minority and women faculty members, Committee Chairman Sidney Verba said yesterday...
Although Paisley is under investigation for his conduct as a defense consultant, the current issue of Defense Week magazine raises suspicions about his tenure in the Pentagon. In June 1986, the magazine reports, Paisley abruptly changed the Navy's acquisition strategy for the Aegis missile defense system in a way that threw the contract to Sperry (now Unisys). He consolidated the work on six separate components of the Aegis into a single bid, and since Sperry was the only company that had developed bids on all the components, it was the only one prepared to bid on the consolidated contract...
...invasion of Lebanon scattered Arafat and the P.L.O. into exile across the Arab world. A year later, a feud with Assad led to Arafat's expulsion first from Syria, then from Lebanon. In 1986 Jordan's King Hussein angrily dissolved an agreement under which a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation would conduct peace negotiations with Israel...
Before courtroom testimony had been completed this spring, Judge Garrity dismissed Walters' charges against the two supervisors--to whom she had initially complained--ruling that the supervisors' conduct "does not rise to the level of outrageous and extreme conduct which is required for the liability of individuals...