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...revival of the MX was shrewdly engineered by the President. Reagan lobbied hard in public, declaring on a political foray into Ohio that "if Congress rejects these [Scowcroft] proposals, it will have dealt a blow to our national security that no foreign power would ever have been able to accomplish." Then he met privately with legislators who remained skeptical about the MX. He also sent accommodating notes to lawmakers who had asked for changes in the Administration's negotiating position in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks with the Soviet Union, which are scheduled to resume in Geneva on June...
...same thing happened a year ago. The Crimson met UCLA in the first round, lost, and saw UCLA go on to win the tourney. When Harvard received its first invitation to the tournament three years ago, it was Peperdine that dealt the fatal blow...
...NOTEBOOK. The victory over Princeton raised the Crimson's record to 13-7 over all and 5-1 in the Ivies. The Tigers dropped to 13-3. Princeton's only other losses were dealt by Miami and South Carolina, both ranked in the nation's top ten Princeton played without number two player Pia Lamayo, who has played for the Phillipines Federation Cup Team and is currently in jured. Harvard must now await an NCAA committee's decision in hopes of receiving an invitation to the national championship tourney...
...certainly a much less than candid appraisal of the course the Corporation was to follow. The Corporation evidently sees to South Africa policy not to much as a rigorous set of guidelines in both meaning and spirit but as something to be gotten around. Something that has to be dealt with, not because it really ought to be dealt with, but because students and some other crazy adults get upset about it. Calkins' statement was merely the last indicator of how little tooth the governing board has meant to give its effort to work for "constructive change...
...nation's nuclear power industry is already reeling from cost overruns, widespread public doubts and a snarl of ever changing Government regulations. Last week it was dealt another blow: the U.S. Supreme Court, in a 9-to-0 decision, upheld a California moratorium enacted in 1976 that bans certification of new nuclear facilities until the Federal Government finds a way to dispose permanently of the plants' highly radioactive waste products. The ruling, which affects only future construction, opens the door for wider state involvement...