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Ruthless Khmer Rouge guerrillas impose a harsh life on 60,000 Kampucheans warehoused in four refugee camps in eastern Thailand. The practice of Buddhism is banned, marriages are permitted only with the consent of the Khmer Rouge cadres, and education is restricted to recitation of Communist tracts. But those who are stuck in the Thailand camps are the lucky ones...
...city entered into a consent decree with the court and agreed to the proposed housing remedy by a vote of 5-2. A little over a year later, the city reversed itself, voting 4-3 in opposition to its previous agreement...
...that it had plowed into the ground or dumped into unlicensed landfills near an atomic-fuel-processing plant outside Piketon, Ohio, over the past 30 years. The much needed cleanup will not begin immediately: the final wording of the agreement is still being hammered out in a federal-court consent decree that must be approved by a judge, and the $50 million detoxification job is expected to take from two to five years. Nevertheless, Ohio officials were especially pleased that the Reagan Administration has agreed to abide by Ohio environmental regulations, some of which are more stringent than federal rules...
...face of tuition increases that are fast outpacing inflation, prestigious universities such as Harvard are being asked to justify the exorbitant costs of higher education. In the propaganda the College releases (in the form of an admissions guide to prospective applicants), the presence of what is "by common consent" one of the world's finest faculties is prominently cited. "Almost every member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences is both a teacher and a scholar," it goes...
...information has been given out. Permits have been issued without the consent or knowledge of the neighborhood," said Nicholas Geraigery, the president of the East Cambridge Planning Committee...