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...newsletter tries to dispel misconceptions about Harvard, officials said, including the belief that only once person in each high school class can get in as well as only the rich...
Reagan is anxious to dispel the impression that he is insensitive to discrimination against women. At a Republican women's leadership forum in San Diego on Friday, he said: "All of us are interested in one goal: ensuring legal equity for women." He instructed the Justice Department to have specific recommendations for revisions to federal law on his desk by the time he returns from vacation next week...
...study on discriminatory laws and regulations. "Contrary to news reports, we do not feel you faced a hostile audience," wired Maxine Hays, the organization's international president. But the gaffe, while far from egregious, was a telling illustration of the difficulties Reagan faces as he struggles to dispel the impression that he is a rich man's President who is insensitive to poor people, women and minorities. That was, in fact, precisely the effort that Reagan was making last week. He traveled to Atlanta to stress his commitment to civil rights and women's concerns before...
Mugabe has done little to dispel that impression. He has forcefully moved to curb the powers of his main rival, Joshua Nkomo, with whom he shared an uneasy alliance during the seven-year guerrilla war that finally ended the white regime of Ian Smith in 1979. In January, Mugabe's troops killed hundreds of Nkomo's Ndebele tribesmen in Matabeleland, ostensibly while crushing opposition guerrillas. When soldiers raided Nkomo's home in March, he fled to London, where he remains in exile...
Like many another professional organization, the American Bar Association has a popular image of being more concerned about serving its membership than the public interest. At its 105th annual meeting last week in Atlanta, the A.B.A. did little to dispel that perception. Its principal act was to adopt a new code of ethics that, among other things, generally bars attorneys from disclosing prospective criminal conduct by their clients unless it is "likely to result in imminent death or substantial bodily harm...