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Reagan said the cutoff, of covert authority by Congress "was taking away the ability of the Executive Branch to carry out its constitutional responsibilities." Another member of the Administration, U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, impugned the motives of some members in an interview with a Buenos Aires newspaper: "There are people in the U.S. Congress who do not approve of our efforts to consolidate the constitutional government of El Salvador and who would actually like to see the Marxist forces take power in that country...
Exactly what game Brandeis was playing was difficult to tell. Their outfielders over-threw cutoff men, the infielders mishandled grounders and their pitchers served up gopher balls...
...sounded like they prelude to a dramatic reversal of American foreign policy. A cutoff of military aid to the ruling regime in EI Salvador perhaps, or a severing of U.S. ties with South Africa? No way Shultz was outlining a plan called "Project Democracy." which the Reagan Administration intends to start up as the latest weapon in its ongoing ideological crusade against Communism...
...presidents of Black colleges and universities have, however, objected to the requirement that freshmen athletes have a combined score of 700 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test. They are right in their outrage and objection. The use of the combined SAT cutoff point will in no way address itself to the reason Black and Hispanic students take these tests less well than the students who come from families with higher incomes. It simply narrows the major escape route available to athletically talented Black youngsters. At its very best, the policy is a misguided effort to reach a laudable...
When the NCAA adopted a SAT cutoff score of 700, it was known that the new policy would fall disproportionately on Black athletes. The mean SAT score for Black high school graduates is 694 for Black students and 925 for white students. If this policy had been in effect in 1981, 51 percent of the Black athletes currently competing in Division I of the NCAA would be ineligible for competition. Grambling, Jackson State and Florida A&M could not effectively compete with nearby white universities for revenues in lucrative cable TV markets. It is either a profound irony...