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Debating the world's problems is thirsty work. So when United Nations Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar eliminated the delegates' carafes of ice water to save an estimated $100,000 a year, parched orators objected...
Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar has countered with his own pressure: he has intimated that he may not accept a second five-year term this fall unless the U.S. continues its financial support of the U.N. "I don't see any reason why I should preside over the collapse of the organization," he told the New York Times. His pressure tactic may have been ! unnecessary: the White House is now urging Congress to vote the full assessment...
...because of their pitching. That good pitching wins ball games is a cliche, but nothing becomes cliched without being somewhat true. When was the last time any other team in the league had such a strong starting rotation? One has to look back a decade, to Baltimore's Palmer-Cuellar-Dobson-MacInally rotation to find such an agglomeration of hurlers on one American League team. Nor have the Sox, who now sport the rotation of Clemens-Boyd-Hurst-Seaver-Nipper, boasted such pitching in a decade. One wonders whether Clemens, Boyd and Hurst would have all won 20 games...
...varied from good cheer to quiet pride to plain antagonism. At the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 300 students demonstrated against the regents' refusal to grant an honorary degree to jailed South African Black Leader Nelson Mandela; later, new graduates listened politely to U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar's persuasions for peace on earth. At Haverford College near Philadelphia, former Secretary of Transportation Drew Lewis doffed his academic hood and rejected an honorary degree after 28 faculty members protested his handling of the air controllers' strike five years ago. At the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, by contrast, Julius...
...Mike Cuellar...