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...tuition plan would aim to keep the total cost of getting a Ph.D. about the same, maybe by means of a cutoff point for tuition after a certain number of years, Keenan said. He added, "We wouldn't want to make students keep paying indefinitely...
...restore control of the [hijacked] aircraft to its lawful commander." The Hague Convention of 1970 called for the prosecution of captured hijackers. An agreement in Bonn in 1978 attempted to go a step further: the country that accepts hijackers must either prosecute or extradite them-or else face the cutoff of commercial air traffic by the other countries...
...emphasis of human rights as a standard to determine which nations qualify for American assistance is one of the most striking changes in the Reagan Administration's approach to foreign policy. The Carter Administration had frequently threatened a cutoff of aid to foreign governments accused of trampling on human rights. But Reagan last month lifted economic sanctions, which had been imposed on Chile when the Pinochet regime refused to cooperate in an investigation into the outrageous assassination in Washington, B.C., of former Chilean Diplomat Orlando Letelier. Earlier Reagan welcomed to the White House Chun Doo Hwan, President of South...
Moreover, the Administration chose not just to demand a cutoff of the arms flow. It also gave all-out support to the shaky military-civilian junta now ruling El Salvador, sending not only American weapons but military training personnel. If that help enables the junta to prevail, the U.S. would indeed have broken a string of American setbacks and Communist successes. But if the junta should fall, either to the leftist guerrillas or -equally bad-to a coup by rightists misusing American aid, Washington would suffer an unnecessary setback round the world. The European allies and several friendly Latin American...
...least 30 of the converted apartments are occupied by people who have moved in since the 1979 cutoff date. David H. Gibbs, a tenant, said yesterday, adding that the condominiums have sold...