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...presence of women on campus is not the only change in Harvard that Pusey has witnessed in his lifetime. Although the University decided to employ police in the 1960s to curtail protests, the present administration has seemed loath to take similar measures in the face of protest...
...sides returned to the negotiating table early last year, the Soviets have produced a flurry of proposals setting forth the broad outlines of the socalled grand compromise: Moscow would agree to significant reductions in offensive weaponry primarily affecting its land-based missile arsenal if Washington would agree to curtail its Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, the plan for a space-based antimissile shield. Gorbachev's letter proposed linking cuts in offensive missiles to an agreement by both countries to honor for at least 15 more years the 1972 antiballistic-missi le agreement, which would confine SDI to laboratory research...
Pointing to recent actions by the Reagan administration such as pulling out of the World Court and UNESCO and threatening to curtail American financial support of the United Nations, Bok said the United States needs to alter its way of dealing with other nations...
Indeed, the National Park Service estimates that there are about 100,000 flights across the 1.2 million-acre Grand Canyon each year, or an average of 274 a day. Since his appointment more than five years ago, Marks has done little to curtail the traffic. Now the climate in Washington appears to be changing. National Park Service Director William Penn Mott announced in an interview last year that he favors excluding "airplanes and helicopters from the canyon itself." Even so, control of flights over--and into--the Grand Canyon may fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration...
Indeed, the National Park Service estimates that there are about 100,000 flights across the 1.2 million-acre Grand Canyon each year, or an average of 274 a day. Since his appointment more than five years ago, Marks has done little to curtail the traffic. Now the climate in Washington appears to be changing. National Park Service Director William Penn Mott announced in an interview last year that he favors excluding "airplanes and helicopters from the canyon itself." Even so, control of flights over -- and into -- the Grand Canyon may fall under the jurisdiction of the Federal Aviation Administration...