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...Undergraduate Council last night approved a two-pronged approach to the imminent College crackdown on underage drinking, resolving to enforce the minimum drinking age while bolstering campus parties...
...billion by absent parents, contributing to a rising level of poverty among single mothers and adding to state welfare rolls. Fully half of the 4 million divorced mothers in the U.S. who are entitled to support payments get only part or none of the full amount. Although the crackdown has been applauded, some groups have reservations. David Levy, president of the Washington-based National Council for Children's Rights, says that the laws will be most effective with fathers in regular jobs, who tend to make payments anyway. Marginally employed deadbeats will still be hard to track...
...Georgia, Shevardnadze entered the Communist Party at the unusually young age of 20 and began a quick ascent of the local party apparatus. In 1965 he was named Georgian minister for maintenance of public order--head of the republic's police force. In this role he launched a crackdown on the freelance corruption that had plagued the region, although some in the Soviet Union say that he personally benefited from the well-organized kickback schemes, which remained intact. When he became Georgia's Communist Party first secretary in 1972, he was credited with revitalizing the region's economy and allowing...
...recent crackdown has succeeded in "squashing" underage drinking at campus parties and has made the Yale lifestyle "stale," said Mark Watts, chairman of a student committee that plans campus social events...
...very leaders who could do the most to resolve a potentionally explosive situation. The South African government has shown none of the restraint that we expect from Harvard and other American universities; while we have waited for the CRR's decision, Botha's government has lauched an unprecedented crackdown on leaders of internal dissent movements--especially more moderate leaders. As increasing numbers of committed non-violent dissenters are silenced, the regime has made it virtually certain that the country will see more deaths arising from leaderless chaos in the townships, or from the direction of a group of frustrated, more...