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Prime Minister Thatcher responded to the violence in Brussels by summoning a number of her country's football officials to confer with her on the problem of fan violence. She announced that Britain would be contributing $317,500 to a special fund for victims of the riot and families of the dead. Last March, Thatcher set up a panel that included members of her cabinet to study soccer violence after fans went on a rampage in Luton, England. The Prime Minister said last week that she will now meet sooner than planned with the group to review progress on implementing...
President Bok this morning was scheduled to confer honorary degrees on nine men and a woman, including renowned psychologist B.F. Skinner and Nobel Laureate Andre Lwoff, the French biologist...
President Bok this morning was scheduled to confer honorary degrees...
...short, Teeters walks the tightrope between the egalitarian ideal and the reality of status. Merrymount society allows him to play the game, though it does not spell out the regulations. Rule 1 is that friendliness and even sexual intimacy do not automatically confer acceptance. Rule 2 is that the home team gets to suspend Rule 1 whenever it wants to flaunt its self- assurance. Cynthia Pickles, local ice princess and founder of Overview ("a journal of opinion for all sides"), coolly sleeps with Teeters, accepts his nuptial propositions but marries smooth, rich Jerry Chirouble. Pickles' underclass equivalent is Toby Snapper...
...resume this week, when Foreign Minister Shintaro Abe is to meet with Secretary of State George Shultz in Washington. Talks will also continue at the technical level. But the next top- level trade event will be the seven-nation economic summit in Bonn beginning May 2, when Reagan will confer with the leaders of the major industrial democracies, including Nakasone. The President plans to make trade the main item on the agenda, calling for a new round of negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Several lawmakers voted in favor of last week's House...