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...Hussein and the Palestinians to the conference table, the U.S. seems to be making progress at last in the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. U.S. Special Envoy Philip Habib has told the Israelis that he saw a letter in which Syrian Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam assured his Lebanese counterpart, Elie Salem, that "when the last Israeli leaves, the last Syrian will leave...
...superficial logic to the Weinberger position. But aside from its debatable starting premise that the U.S. is now inferior, that position spells trouble on two counts. First, regardless of what "net assessment" he or any military analyst might make about the Soviet-American balance, Weinberger's Soviet counterpart, Dmitri Ustinov, is never going to accept the notion that the Soviets must sit on their hands while the U.S. catches...
Such self-centered motivation is far from the "harvest of international peace and understanding" contemplated by John F. Kennedy in 1961. However, it has enabled the Peace Corps to survive. Faced in 1981 with a declining budget and the demise of VISTA, its domestic counterpart, (termed "leftist" by ACTION director Thomas Pauken), the Corps began its image-changing drive, and succeeded in separating from ACTION, in February, 1982. When the need for the Peace Corps was challenged by right-wing interest groups, Ruppe mounted a counter-offensive. The budget was increased from $105 million in 1982 to $109 this year...
Before the women's mile relay the score stood at 61-61; the event had no bearing on the overseas venture, just the meet on hand Harvard's Sigrid Gabler led off and stayed even with her Yale counterpart until the handoff. When the Yale quartet went ahead for good...
...Finally, what really qualified these fans as the best, besides their maniacal support for their team, was their sportsmanship. The Badger band applauded its Crimson counterpart's mournful rendition of "Fair Harvard" in the waning minutes of the final. And as the Harvard skaters crossed center ice to collect their individual awards as runners-up, the Wisconsin fans clapped for each one, saving especially strong cheers for Coach Bill Cleary and Hobey Baker Award winner Mark Fusco...