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...dwindling devices? More difficult still, if the guerrillas seem on the brink of military victory, does the U.S. send in combat troops? Friendly countries in the region and American allies around the world would almost unanimously oppose deeper, more direct American involvement; the Administration would also have to contend with massive political and popular resistance in this country, based as much as anything on distaste for the type of regime the U.S. would be trying to rescue. Besides, the rationale for the Administration's ends and means in El Salvador rests on the reassurances, repeated by Haig...
...Ever since the early 1970s--when the women's liberation movement spread across the nation--administrators and academicians have debated the legitimacy of women's studies programs. Some scholars have argued that the study of women is a unique entity that should be treated separately from traditional curricula; others contend that it is too integral a part of the standard disciplines to be distilled out. Some universities have created women's studies departments; many have ignored the issue altogether. Harvard has chosen the middle ground--leaving the study of women's history and issues in traditional departments while creating...
...hard work will not be sufficient for Dukakis to return to the governor's mansion. Some criticize Dukakis for avoiding issues in the campaign so far. If the race becomes more substantive in tone. King may begin to gain support, some observers contend. Garry Orren, professor of Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government says "people will be reminded of Dukakis' stands they don't agree with, why they voted against him in 1978." Noting that complacency may result in as much as a 7 percent fall in a candidate's tally at the polls, Orren concludes that...
Though Israeli officials neither confirm nor deny the charges, they point out that the incidents supposedly took place in the '50s, and claim that they would never occur today. They contend, moreover, that much of the report is "disinformation" engineered by the Soviet Union...
...Manhattan Bank, General Electric, Burger King and the American Bible Society. Computer audit programs are selling so swiftly that the leading accounting firms are moving into the business. Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., for instance, now markets its own program, called System 2190. FBI experts like Agent Paul Nolan, however, contend that so far such programs have largely failed to detect frauds by sophisticated criminals...