Word: deale
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Despite Ackermann's efforts to discipline the police force--eventually, the whole force was sent back to the police academy for a week-long refresher course--she writes with a good deal of sympathy for the officers. She suggests that the police are often ill-equipped to deal with the rage that society creates in incidents like the Roosevelt Towers riots. Police did not make the problem, she writes, they were simply a part...
April 9--More than 400 students take over University Hall, forcibly removing administrators. Three of their six demands deal with ROTC's expulsion from campus...
Critics have stigmatized the proposed deal as "Yalta II," a repetition of Franklin Roosevelt's unwitting sellout of Eastern Europe in 1945. The State Department bureaucracy is unanimously (though anonymously) convinced that a superpower negotiation on the fate of Europe would offend the Europeans. Last month James Baker publicly floated the idea, without quite endorsing it. Sure enough, transatlantic cables poured into Foggy Bottom with protests and warnings. The British Ambassador in Washington sought, and received, assurances that the Administration was not embracing the plan. Last week Kissinger insisted that his purpose is not to redo Yalta but to undo...
When anyone at Drexel Burnham Lambert talks, the Government may soon be listening. Last week the investment firm said it would submit to unprecedented federal supervision as part of an agreement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to settle charges of insider trading and stock fraud. The deal will enable Drexel to proceed with a separate settlement of criminal charges, first announced last December, for which the firm will pay $650 million in fines...
...1/2-year federal probe. But the price is high. The agreement puts Drexel on probation for three years and requires it to set up an oversight committee. The firm is also naming a new chairman, former SEC head John Shad, to succeed Drexel's Robert Linton. As expected, the deal forces Drexel to cut all ties to its former junk-bond king, Michael Milken, who is facing separate criminal charges of racketeering and securities fraud. Last week Milken agreed to set aside assets of at least $600 million, which could be forfeited if he is found guilty...